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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

REPORT OF THE

LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

AND

REPORT OF THE

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LIBRARY
BUILDING AND GROUNDS

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30

1915

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1915

This volume is for sale by the

SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS

Government Printing Office

Washington, D. C.

Price, 40 cts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Form of gift or bequest to the Library of Congress 4

List of officers 5

Report of the Librarian 7

Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds. 133

Appendix la. Appropriations and expenditures (tables) i4j

Ib. Appropriation acts, 1915-16 151

II. Report of the Register of Copyrights 157

III. Manuscripts and Broadsides: List of Acces-
sions, 1914-15 201

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Library of Congress. Exterior view Frontispiece

Plan of the cellar Facing page 6

Plan of the basement Facing page 6

Plan of the first or main floor Facing page 6

Plan of the second floor Facing page 6

Plan of the attic Facing page 6

FORM OK GIFT OR BEQUEST TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

"To THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO BE PLACED IN THE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND ADMINISTERED THEREIN BY THE
AUTHORITIES THEREOF."

LIST OF OFFICERS

LIBRARIANS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE LIBRARY

1802-1807 John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives and

Librarian
1807-1815 Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the House of Representatives

and Librarian

1815-1829 George Watterston
1820-1861 John Silva Meehan
1861-1864 John G. Stephenson
1864-1897 (June jo) Ainsworth Rand Spofford
1897 (July i)~January 17, 1899 John Russell Young
1899 (April 5) Herbert Putnam

LIBRARY STAFF

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

HERBERT PUTNAM Librarian of Congress

APPLETON PRENTISS CLARK GRIFFIN Chief Assistant Librarian

Allen Richards Boyd Chief Clerk

Jessica Louise Farnum Secretary

DIVISIONS

Reading Room , Superintendent; Hugh Alexander Morrison,

John Graham Morrison, chief assistants

Division of Bibliography Hermann Henry Bernard Meyer, Chief
Card Division Charles Harris Hastings, Chief
Catalogue Division Charles Martel, Chief; Clarence W. Perley, chief

classifier

Division of Documents Henry John Harris, Chief
Division of Manuscripts Gaillard Hunt, Chief
Division of Maps and Charts Philip Lee Phillips, Chief
Division of Music Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, Chief
Order Division Frederick William Ashley, Chief
Division of Periodicals William Adams Slade, Chief
Division of Prints Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, Chief
Semitic Division Israel Schapiro, in charge.
Smithsonian Deposit Paul Brockett, Custodian (office at Smithsonian

Institution), Francis Henry Parsons, assistant in charge
Law Library Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Law Librarian

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THORVALD SOLBERG Register of Copyrights
ERNEST BRUNCKEN Assistant Register of Copyrights

LIBRARY BRANCH, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

Printing James H. Brodnax, foreman
Binding R. C. Lohmeyer, foreman

LIBRARY BUILDING AND GROUNDS

FRANK LLOYD AvERiLL Superintendent

Wade H. Rabbitt Chief Clerk

Charles Benjamin Titlow Chief Engineer

Damon Warren Harding Electrician

John Vanderbilt Wiirdemann Captain of the watch

ARTHUR JEFFREY PARSONS

1856-1915

On November 5, 1915, after this report was in type, the
Library sustained a serious loss in the death of Arthur
Jeffrey Parsons, chief of its Division of Prints since 1900.
A connoisseur of the arts, an " amateur" of books, and with
means reasonably to gratify his tastes as a mere dilettante,
he saw here an opportunity to apply them to a definite and
useful public service. For fifteen years he did so, dedi-
cating his enthusiasm and sacrificing his leisure. During
twelve of those years he conformed to the full routine of a
member of the staff. Of late, his health not permitting
this, his relation was, in a technical sense, honorary; yet it
included not merely general counsel and supervision, but
much specific personal work done without, as well as within,
the Library.. When taken ill last July he was engaged
upon such a work the preparation of a catalogue of the
Harrison Garrett Collection.

His unique value to the Library was, however, outside
the routine. Not least important in its benefits was the
interest in the collection which he inspired in individuals
and in organizations upon whose cooperation its future de-
pends. Himself a connoisseur, he could speak to connois-
seurs in their own language. Associated with societies and
institutions engaged in the promotion of the arts, he could
mediate with authority between their service and ours.
He established methods by which our duplicate prints were
made available for exhibit and study at a distance. Apply-
ing to the collection itself those nice discriminations of taste
and of feeling which are the due of art, he not merely
brought to the surface what was worthy in it, but invested
this with an atmosphere. When he took charge of the divi-
sion it was without distinction in material, service, or repute.
It has now a certain distinction in all three.

His interest, and a similar touch, extended to the books
significant in form, and to bindings; and his warm concern
to every department and activity of the Library. In rela-
tion to the staff this became a personal concern, which took
effect in various kindly and considerate ways; while the
spirit of his relation to his own work seemed to refine and
dignify even the most ordinary and routine work of others
with whom he came into contact. It was an animating
influence throughout the Library.

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REPORT

THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Washington, D. C., December 6, 1915

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as
Librarian of Congress for the year ending June 30, 1915.
The report of the Superintendent of the Library Building
and Grounds (and Disbursing Officer) follows, beginning at
page 135. That of the Register of Copyrights is, as usual,
incorporated in full as Appendix II.

The death, on October 22 (1914), of my associate, Bernard
R. Green, left a vacancy in the Superin tendency of the Li-
brary Building and Grounds, which under the law would be
filled by Presidential appointment. A provision, however
(in the Legislative appropriation bill for 1915-16 as re-
ported to the House on December 14, 1914), to transfer
the duties of the position to the Librarian, giving him
a deputy as "assistant superintendent and disbursing offi-
cer," caused the postponement of any nomination during
the session; for the bill, and incidentally this provision,
remained pending until its close. As finally passed, how-
ever, the bill retained as to the Superin tendency the pro-
visions of the existing law, only reducing the salary from
$5,000 to $3,000; and on April 19 the President designated
Mr. Frank Lloyd Averill, of Washington, D. C., to receive a
recess commission, under which on April 23 he took over the
duties of the office.

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In so far as these involved disbursements I had been able
(under a ruling of the Treasury Department) to provide for
them during the interim by the designation of Mr. Green's
Chief Clerk, Mr. Wade H. Rabbitt, as (temporary) Disburs-
ing Officer. As to other matters (the care and administra-
tion of the building itself and the grounds) I was, of course,
obliged for the time being to assume such responsibility as
the situation required. From January 25 (1915), however,
my authority was made definite by a provision in the Urgent
Deficiency Act of that date reading as follows :

"LIBRARY BUILDING AND GROUNDS: During the pres-
ent vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of the
Library Building and Grounds, the Librarian of Con-
gress is authorized to exercise the powers and perform
the duties of the said office, except those of disbursing
officer."

Under this provision I proceeded until the assumption of
the office by Mr. Averill, on April 23, 1915.
. The matters requiring attention during this period were
chiefly of a routine nature, and for the most part such as Mr.
Green's competent staff could deal with in course. They are
sufficiently included in the Superintendent's report of the
year as a whole, and seem to require no particularization by
me.
ref- In my last report I noted as of prime interest the grant of

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an appropriation for Legislative Reference service, explained
the conditions which seemed to call for such a service here,
and reviewed the efforts which for some years previous had
been directed toward the establishment of it. The ap-
propriation (in the Legislative appropriation Act for the
year 1914-15) did not, however, become actually available
until July i, 1914. So that the service under it was merely
prospective when my last report was drafted.
The appropriation read as follows :

"LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE: To enable the Librarian
of Congress to employ competent persons to prepare

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such indexes, digests, and compilations of law as may
be required for Congress and other official use pursuant
to the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
and six, $25,000."

Although the appropriation became available at the begin-
ning of the fiscal year, the demand would obviously be
slight until the beginning of the regular session in December.
A full organization of the staff was therefore deferred until
then. Certain preliminaries were, however, desirable in
particular, a consideration of questions pending which were
likely to receive attention during the session. These might
be indicated (i) in the program outlined by or in behalf of
the administration, (2) by the announced programs of cer-
tain major Committees, (3) by bills actually pending in one
House which had passed the other, and (4) by other bills
pending which were likely to be passed even in a short
session.

Among the subjects of legislation thus clearly in prospect
were (i) the Conservation bills, so called, (2) the Merchant
marine, (3) the Government of the Philippines, (4) Immi-
gration. On some of these one House had already acted.
There were also, in the same category, bills relating to
convict-made goods, to railroad securities, to Federal aid in
road making, to a bureau of labor safety, and to publicity
in campaign contributions. Among the subjects in which
the administration had expressed interest was that of a
national Budget system.

To anticipate the demand for "data" on these subjects
and to identify and, so far as practicable, actually assemble
the source material in advance was the natural course, and
it was adopted. In only one subject, however, was an
attempt made to draw off and digest the data. This was in
relation to the Budget. The demand here was likely to be
for a description of Budget systems in foreign countries.
A descriptive account of these was therefore undertaken,

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beginning with Great Britain. As to other subjects, the
response awaited the demand, the character and angle of
which could not well be anticipated.

One other preliminary was obvious that is, to consider
the field of each of the major Committees of Congress and
to assign each field, or the several contiguous fields, to some
one of the staff who should give it special study and be
specially responsible for the treatment of it. If not a
specialist in the subject matter, such an employee would at
least become one in his knowledge of the sources and his
familiarity with the means for the ready use of them.
He would inform himself as to what exists in print, recom-
mend material to be acquired, and acquaint himself with
guides, indexes, and the other aids to quick and certain
reference. All of such material and aids in the various
executive and scientific Departments and Bureaus were of
course to be noted and if available in printed form to be
assembled as part of the apparatus of the Division.

Demands certain to be expected would involve our own
(Federal) statutes. A complete detailed and scientific index
to these would therefore be essential. Now such an index
did not exist. One "compiled" was issued in 1906, but it
consisted merely of a consolidation of the indexes to the
biennial volumes. The Index prepared by our previous
corps and issued in 1908 did attempt to be both scientific
and detailed. It was based on a set of schedules subject
headings prepared in advance and submitted for criticism.
The two volumes issued covered, however, only the period
to 1908, and merely the permanent and general law. It
needed to be brought to date and to be complemented by
an index to the private and local acts, many of which con-
tain provisions of general import beyond the occasion or the
locality. A group of indexers applied specifically to this
work was accordingly organized, and has pursued steadily

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the construction of these indexes as part of the necessary
permanent apparatus of the Division.

With the session the particular demands began to come
in. Their interest is in their character and range, but also
in relation to the apprehensions expressed by opponents of
the service itself. For from the time such a service here
was suggested there have been such opponents. Some pro-
tested that its effect would be to turn the Library into a
"Bill Factory." Their objection was met by the entire
elimination from the project of "bill drafting," which is a
feature of state legislative service and which was urged here.
Others foresaw in the service a mass of material of trifling
public import, which would be fed into the Record in the
form of speeches either wholly partisan or at most conducing
rather to the personal vanity of the legislator than to the
efficiency of legislation. Others anticipated demands purely
private, local or personal, which would exhaust its energies
without in the least advancing the business of legislation.

The actual demands during the three months of the session
may be grouped as follows: for digests or compilations of
Federal or State statute or Constitutional law on various
subjects; for comparative studies, compilations, abstracts
or translations of foreign law or decrees on various subjects;
for compilations on certain questions of Legislative pro-
cedure domestic and. foreign; for translations and com-
pilations on certain subjects in International law; for digests
and compilations on Powers of the executive in Canada
France, and Germany over the tariff; for statistical infor-
mation on some nineteen subjects, foreign and domestic;
for extracts (furnished in the form of photostat reproduc-
tions) of various articles in newspapers or periodicals; for
lists of bills introduced on certain subjects ; for memoranda
on bills pending, e. g., the construction of certain words or
phrases, the history of previous legislation on the same sub-
ject, Precedents from other jurisdictions, or the Record of

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subjects within the field of two or more Committees; for
bibliographic memoranda on certain subjects; and for
reports or memoranda involving miscellaneous reference
work in cooperation with other Divisions of the Library.
There were some seventeen of the last described. Prac-
tically #11 were pertinent to questions before or likely to
come before Congress, even if not involved in legislation
actually pending.

This summary indicates the range of the work, but not its
dimension; for while some of 'the inquiries could be answered
in an hour and a single typewritten page, others required
several weeks of research and a statement covering 50 pages.

A detailed list of the subjects dealt with is not feasible here.
An examination of it would be suggestive as indicating how
far the actual demands upon the service have justified the
apprehensions expressed. Of demands purely personal to
the legislator, the number has 'been surprisingly small, at
most three or four. All of the others, if not related to leg-
islation actually pending or in prospect, did relate to matters
of proper concern to a legislator; the analysis or interpreta-
tion of particular statutes, or of statutes dealing with certain
subject matter, in which a Member of Congress might have a
justifiable interest. Of this description were, for instance,
the various demands for the state laws on various subjects.
Of major importance in themselves, and most distinctive in
the service required, were the questions involving foreign or
international law. These alone would have required a serv-
ice such as this. The number of them, small during a single
short session, must of course increase with the increased
participation of the United States in the affairs of the world;
and the inevitable participation of Congress and of individual
Members of Congress in the discussion and determination of
the attitude of the United States upon those affairs. This
latter participation creates a situation here not paralleled in
any country with a responsible ministry. In such a country

Report of the Librarian of Congress 13

it may be sufficient that the ministry shall be informed ; in ours
the minority as well as the majority, and each member of both
minority and majority, is entitled to be informed. Where
there is a responsible ministry the information is supplied by
experts who are part of the permanent executive establish-
ment. In our case the initiative in legislation may be taken
by a single member of Congress; the legislation may even be
carried through in opposition to the administration. And
the data required, even if in the possession of the executive,
may not be seasonably available. It is important that they
should be in the hands of the member before he takes the
initiative or in any way announces his purpose. An under-
standing of them may enable him to shape his proposal to
better advantage. It may induce him to abandon it wholly.
In either case he should have it.

The situation at Washington differs, therefore, from that
at a capital where all the initiative is taken by a responsible
ministry, and the data required by the minority are employed
only for the purpose of criticism.

Prominent during the past session were questions arising
out of the war: Exportation of munitions, the Military and
Naval expenditures of various countries (including the
United States) during the past quarter century ; the Transfer
of flag ; Contraband ; Exportation and destination of copper;
Protest; Suppression of liquor traffic; the London con-
ference; Neutrality. The discussion of the Seamen's bill
called for compilations upon the Wages of seamen in foreign
countries; and that on the Ship purchase bill for the legis-
lation of foreign countries in aid of or governmental control of
a Merchant marine. The legislation of Russia on this latter
subject seeming especially apposite, this section of the com-
pilation was printed as a Committee document. It played
little, if any, part in the discussion. In a question so large as
the one involved, however, the value of data is not always

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to be tested by the immediate affirmative use to which they
are put.

That much of the data actually quoted in debate went
merely to swell the pages of the Record must be admitted ;
that much was desired and employed for purposes merely
" partisan" goes without saying. Both are true of the books
called for from the Library itself. The compensation is that
the data sought for and supplied in this way will be apt to
be more accurate than that "fed into the Record" without
the aid of such a service. The personnel of the staff includes
men trained in law and research ; its spirit and methods are
scientific; its object is to state the facts and (so far as con-
clusions are ventured) the truth. If the legislator uses only
that portion of the facts which will support his argument,
that is his affair, as the argument itself is his affair. His
opponent has an equal opportunity to secure the opposing
facts upon which to base an opposing argument.

The omission from the service as legalized of any provision
for bill drafting did not prevent some requests for aid in
this. In two or three cases the aid was given; but infor-
mally, and merely as the personal suggestion of someone of
the staff brought into personal relation with the legislator.
I refer, of course, to the actual final shaping of the bill,
expert control of which is so earnestly urged by publicists
considering the machinery of legislation. Preliminary aid
of "various sorts is within the regular scope of the service.
It may, for instance, report what is the existing law on a
given subject and how this has been construed by the courts,
and what rules, regulations, and decisions have been made
under it by an executive department. In reading through
the Federal statutes (and in the course of their work they
will have read through every one of them, from the beginning
to date) its corps of indexers note the " usual form" of any
bill, clause, or paragraph of common occurrence, also the
particular word or phrase employed to effect a certain pur-

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pose. These notes are at the disposal of any Member. And
the material the Reference bureau accumulates as part of
its apparatus may prove serviceable to him in other ways;
for instance, in determining whether the administrative
features of his bill conform to existing departmental ma-
chinery, whether the references to existing statutes are
exact, and what existing statutes, if any, should be s'pecifi-
cally mentioned in the repealing clause. Such service would
be merely auxiliary. The Member would still determine
what is to be carried by the bill, and he would draw the bill.
The work to be done in indexing the Federal Statutes was :

(1) The continuation to date on cards of the Index
the Permanent and General Law, which the two volumes
published in 1908, 1911, had brought down through the year
1907. This has been accomplished and the cards incor-
porated with the cards that formed the "copy" for the pub-
lished volumes. The office has now, therefore, a consoli-
dated index on cards of the Permanent general statute
law of the United States from 1789 through March 4, 1915;
an Index compiled by it upon the basis of schedules devised
by it, and constituting therefore a piece of apparatus which
it can use with facility.

(2) The preparation of indexes (on cards) to

A. The Local acts permanent as well as temporary;

B. The Private acts permanent as well as temporary;
and

C. The "Temporary general," so far as this may seem
to require treatment.

Progress has been made upon the above, so that at the
date of drafting this Report (i. e., September 15) the situa-
tion is reported to be as follows :

A. Local. Volumes 33, 34, 36 (except Appropriation
acts) have been covered, and parts of the Revised Statutes
and of volumes 18, 19, 20, 35. This leaves yet to be treated

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volumes 1-17, 21-32, 37, 38, and parts of the Revised Stat-
utes, and of volumes 18-20 and 35.

B. Private. Volumes 21, 22, and 28-37 completed;
also parts of volumes 18-20 and 27, and the few private
law provisions which appear incidentally in the Revised
Statutes. As there is no "private" law in volumes 1-5,
7, and 8, the above leaves still to be treated volumes 6,
9-17, 23-26, 38, and parts of 18-20 and 27.

C. "Temporary General." This is embodied chiefly in
Appropriation Acts, the provisions in which are ordinarily
assumed to be merely temporary in absence of the words
"after," or "hereafter," or similar specification. The impor-
tance of many such provisions even where temporary in
their specific application, warrants an index to them. It has
been begun, with volume 38 of the Statutes in accordance
with the method adopted of treating the latest volumes
first, and working backward.

All of this recent indexing is merely on cards. The results
may never be published; but their purpose and justifica-
tion were independent of any design of publication. They
were to furnish apparatus indispensable to the efficient
conduct of our Legislative reference service.

The demands upon the Reference service did not cease
with the close of the session ; certain particular undertakings
(for instance, a compilation of the Land laws desired by
the House Committee on the Public lands) necessarily con-
tinued into the recess; and there was a great deal of prepa-
ration requisite for the session to come. The organization
was, therefore, with some diminutions, continued through
June. On July i , however, it was reduced to the minimum
where it now is and will remain until November and the
eve of the next session.

Such a diminution means of course the severance from
the service of experts whom it may be difficult to secure

Report of the Librarian of Congress 1 7

again experts with an accumulated experience difficult to
replace.

It should be avoided in any such service that is to be
permanent.

Provision for a continuance of the service during the fiscal
year 1915-16 was included in my estimates submitted last
October. It was omitted from the Appropriation bill as
reported to the House last December; but later inserted by
the Senate, with the phraseology amplified -and made
general, as follows:

"LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE: To enable the Librarian
of Congress to employ competent persons to gather,
classify, and make available, in translations, indexes,
digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise,
data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such
data serviceable to Congress and Committees and
Members thereof, $25,000."

And in this form it was agreed to in conference and be-
came law.

With the experience of a long session thus added to that
of a short one, some estimate" should be possible of the value
of such a service to Congress, and of the dimension and
character of the organization necessary, if it is to become

permanent.

SERVICE

Except in the Legislative Reference Division, where the
new appropriation enabled us to take on temporarily some
assistants of the character of "experts," there were no addi-
tions of importance to our staff during the past fiscal year.
Mr. James D. Thompson, who had organized for us the
Legislative Reference service with an agreement only to
see it through the session, felt compelled for reasons of
health to resign from it at the session's close. His equipment
for the task was unique, not the least important element
in it being his own foundation studies in pure science, a habit
of precision, and a punctilious devotion to truth for its own

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sake. For years past he had been interested in the study of
service such as this; and in the various positions he had
held with us and elsewhere he had acquired a familiarity
with material (especially documents and law) and an ex-
perience of practice directly applicable to it. Whatever
"principles" may be said to have been established in it as
the result of the past year's experiment and most of the
methods adopted for the treatment of the problems are to
be credited to him. Our debt to him is a permanent one.

For the general direction of the Indexing we were fortu-
nate in securing again Mrs. A. M. Munson, who, as Miss
McNamara, had been associated with the compilation of
the two volumes issued in 1908, 1911. Mrs. Munson is
engaged on similar work for the State of New York, but
arranged to give one week in three to the work here; and
did so from November throughout the fiscal year. She has
now been able to resign the conduct of it to her senior
assistant, Mr. W. H. McClenon.

A temporary change incidental to the Reference service
was the detail of Mr. Ernest Bfuncken from the Copyright
Office to the charge of the room (room 74) at the Capitol
which was the Headquarters there of the sendee during the
session. This detail (due to Mr. Bruncken's antecedent
familiarity with such service gained during his four years'
experience as State Legislative Reference Librarian at
Sacramento) lasted from the beginning of the session
through the remainder of the fiscal year. He then resumed
his regular position as Assistant Register of Copyrights, to
which Mr. Arthur Crisfield of the Office had in his absence
been temporarily advanced.

Since the close of the year Mr. William W. Bishop, the
Superintendent of our Reading Rooms, has left us to become
Librarian of the University of Michigan. It was from a
University Library (that of Princeton, where he was Reference
Librarian) that Mr. Bishop came to us, eight years ago. The

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University of Michigan is his Alma Mater, and he has always
maintained a keen interest in its affairs and warm relations
with members of its faculty. The invitation to become its
librarian was irresistible, and I could not ask him to resist
it. His departure adds one more to the list, already long,
of accomplished and experienced men and women who have
graduated from our service into positions of importance else-
where.

I shall defer any attempt to provide a pennanent successor
to him. I have, however, placed in temporary charge of
the Reading Rooms Mr. Frederick W. Ashley, for some years
past Chief of our Order Division.

In my last Report I noted the action of Congress in grant-
ing a slight increase ($5 a month) in 135 salaries of lower
grade. In line with this action and to perfect it in accord-
ance with my estimates preceding it (see my Report for 1914,
page 15) I submitted for the present year recommendations
for additional slight increases in 197 positions similar in
grade (i. e., from $1,200 down). They are quoted in detail
under" Finance, " infra. They were not adopted. As, how-
ever, they seem to me to involve the permanent welfare of the
service, I shall renew them.

FINANCE

The following table exhibits the appropriations and ex-
penditures of the Library proper and of the Copyright Office
for the fiscal year, and the appropriations for the preceding
fiscal year and the year now current. Included also are
the appropriations for the equipment and care of the build-
ing and grounds, expended by the Superintendent.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Object of appropriations

Appropria-
tions 1914

Appropria-
tions 1915

Expendi-
tures 1915

Appropria-
tions 1916

Library and Copyright Offi>:e:
Salaries
General service

Sunday service

Distribution of card indexes
Legislative reference . .

6 3ii392-27

634,974.88

6 34, 764. 87

39,500.00

857.33

Increase of Library

/ 6, 804. 83

'Total Library and Copyright
Office

Buildings and grounds:
Care and maintenance, includ-

Fuel, light, and miscellaneous. .
Furniture and shelving
Bookstack, southeast court of

14,000. oo
10. ooo. oo

16, ooo. oo
10,000.00

e I5>956. 51

9, 991. 29

14. ooo* oo
17,000.00

Total building and grounds. .

103,427.38

106,205-00

102, 181. 54

110,645.00

Grand total

Printing and binding (allotment
not appropriation)

Bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard
(interest account)

A i, 286.67

h 1,902.55

h 2, 792. 55

Exclusive of $300 appropriated for payment of Miss E. J. Giffin.

b Appropriations 1914 includes ciedits of $1,392.27 on account of sales of caids to Gov-
ernment institutions. Appropriations 1915 includes $1.361.86 credits on account of sales
to Government institutions and $113.02 yet to be credited. Expenditures 1915
($34,764.87) offset by subscriptions covered into the Treasury ($59,379-54)-

c Offset by fees covered into the Treasury ($111,922.75).

<* Exclusive of $2,000 to be expended by the marshal of the Supreme Court for new
books of reference for that body.

' Expenditures include outstanding indebtedness.

/ Appropriations 1914 includes credits of $4.83 on account of sales of photo duplications
to Government institutions. Appropriations 1915 includes credits of 65 cents on account
of sales of photo duplications to Government institutions.

9 Balance available from preceding year; deposited in surplus fund of the Treasury
June 30, 1914.

* Includes balance from preceding year in addition to appropriation of $800.

* Allotment 1914 includes credits of $596.69 on account of sales of cards to Government
institutions. Allotment 1915 includes credits of $583.63 on account of sales of cards to
Government institutions; docs not include $48.43 yet to be credited.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 21

The appropriations for 1914-15 varied from those in the
preceding year in the following particulars :

Salaries (general service} General administration: One
additional position, assistant, at $1,000; the following sala-
ries were increased: Stenographer and typewriter, $720 to
$780; messenger, etc., $480 to $540; junior messenger, $360
to $420.

Bibliography Division: The following salaries were
increased: 2 assistants, $900 to $960; i assistant, $720 to
$780; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Binding Division: The following salary was increased: i
junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Catalogue Division: The following salaries were increased :
14 assistants, $900 to $960; 4 assistants, $800 to $860; 13
assistants, $720 to $780; 10 assistants, $540 to $600; 4
assistants, $480 to $540; 6 junior messengers, $360 to $420.

Congressional Reference Library: The following salaries
were increased: i assistant, $720 to $780; 2 junior messen-
gers, $360 to $420.

Division of Documents: The following salaries were in-
creased: i assistant, $720 to $780; i junior messenger, $360
to $420.

Law Library: The following salaries were increased:, i
assistant, $900 to $960; i assistant, $480 to $540; i junior
messenger, $360 to $420.

Mail Division: The following salaries were increased : i
assistant, $900 to $960; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Division of Maps and Charts: The following salaries were
increased: 2 assistants, $900 to $960; i assistant, $720 to
$780; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Division of Manuscripts: The following salaries were in-
creased: i assistant, $900 to $960; i junior messenger, $360
to $420.

Music Division: The following salaries were increased : 2
assistants, $720 to $780; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

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Order Division: The following salaries were increased: 3
assistants, $900 to $960; 2 assistants, $720 to $780; i assist-
ant, $520 to $580; 2 junior messengers, $360 to $420.

Periodical Division: The following salaries were increased :
2 assistants, $900 to $960; 5 assistants, $720 to $780; 2
junior messengers, $360 to $420.

Division of Prints: The following salaries were increased:
2 assistants, $900 to $960; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Reading Room: The following salaries were increased:
Stenographer and typewriter, $900 to $960; 25 assistants,
$720 to $780; telephone operator, $600 to $660; i attendant
Representatives' Reading Room, $900 to $960, and i attend-
ant Representatives' Reading Room, $720 to $780; 2 attend-
ants for gallery and alcoves, $480 to $540; 4 junior messen-
gers, $360 to $420.

Semitic Division: The following salaries were increased:
i assistant, $900 to $1,500; i junior messenger, $360 to $420.

Legislative Reference: (New appropriation) $25,000.

Card Indexes: Appropriation increased from $30,000 to
$33,500.

Contingent expenses: Appropriation increased from $6,800
to $7,300.

The appropriations for 1915-16 include the following
changes and additional provisions :

Legislative Reference: The item made to read:

To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ com-
petent persons to gather, classify, and make available,
in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bul-
letins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legisla-
tion, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and
committees and Members thereof, $25,000.

Card Indexes: Appropriation increased from $33,500 to
$39>5- The item made to read :

For service in connection with distribution of card
indexes and other publications of the Library, including

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the following salaries now authorized and being paid:
Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assist-
ants one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400
each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at
$i ,000 each ; and for services of assistants at salaries less
than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by
the hour, $15,600, including not exceeding $500 for
freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses con-
nected with such distribution, and expenses of attend-
ance at meetings when incurred on the written authority
and direction of the Librarian, $39,500.

Increase of the Library of Congress: The item made to read :

For purchase of books for the Library, and for freight,
commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other
expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by pur-
chase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available
during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen,
$90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the
sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nine-
teen hundred and fifteen;

For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law
library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000;

For purchase of new books of reference for the Su-
preme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and
purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under
the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000;

For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and news-
papers, $5,000;

In all, $100,000.

9434 15 3

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Library estimates, 1915-16: The following positions asked
for in the estimates for 1915-16 were not granted:

Mail and delivery: One assistant (in particular to operate the

motor cycle in connection with the Library delivery service) . . $600
Reading Room: Two junior stack assistants, at $600 each i, 200

i, 800
Increases of salary recommended, not granted:

Library proper:

5 assistants from $900 to $i ,200 $i, 500

9 assistants from $r ,000 to $i ,080 720

30 assistants from $960 to $1,080 3, 600

2 assistants from $900 to $i ,080 360

i attendant (Senate Reading Room), $900 to

$1,080 180

3 stenographers from $900 to $960 180

4 assistants from $860 to $900 160

1 messenger from $840 to $900 60

53 assistants from $780 to $900 6, 360

2 assistants from $720 to $900 360

2 watchmen (Reading Room), $720 to $900 360

i telephone operator (Reading Room), $660 to

$900 240

1 assistant from $580 to $600 . . 20

8 assistants from $540 to $600 480

28 junior messengers, $420 to $480 i, 680

150 positions 16, 260

10 clerks from $i ,000 to $i ,080 800

18 clerks from $900 to $1,080 3,240

2 clerks from $800 to $900 200

10 clerks from $720 to $900 i, 800

2 clerks from $480 to $600 240

5 junior messengers from $360 to $480 600

47 positions 6, 880

197 positions in total 23, 140

Increase of Library of Congress: (Purchase of books): $100,000 rec-
ommended $90, ooo granted .

For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, $2,500
recommended $2,000 granted.

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The report of the Register of Copyrights appears in f ull C
as Appendix II, and is also separately printed by the Copy-
right Office. It includes the text of the Copyright bill,
H. R. 20695; British Order in Council, February 3, 1915;
Presidential Proclamations: Sec. i (e) Great Britain, Sec.
i (e) Italy; President's Proclamation, and text of Fourth
International American Conference convention proclaimed
July 13, 1914.

The principal statistics of the business done during the
year are as follows :

Fees received and applied

Registrations ($i) including certificates $104, 420. oo

Registrations (50 cents), photographs, no certificates 4, 723. 50

Registrations (50 cents), renewals 663. oo

For copies of record 507. oo

For assignments and copies of same i, 195. oo

For notices of user 126. 25

For indexing transfers of proprietorship 33-00

For searches 255. oo

111,922. 75

Total number of deposits received (material of all classes, including dupli-
cates) 203, 767

Total number of registrations 115, 193

Total communications received, including parcels, but excluding deposits

noted above 147, 538

. Total communications sent out (including letters written) 149, 461

Fiscal year
1914-15

The fees from copyrights are covered into the Treasury
and not applied directly to the maintenance of the Copyright
Office. They form a regular revenue of the Government,
however, and a net revenue over the direct expenses of the
office, as appears from the comparison following.

26 Report of the Librarian of Congress

OFFICE:
Receipts and ex- Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1914-15, as above. . $111, 922. 75

penses

EXPENSES

Salaries as stated $102, 419. 36

Stationery and sundries i, 354. 03

I 3. 773- 39

Net cash earnings 8, 149. 36

The amount expended for salaries ($102,419.36) includes
the sum of $4,680 paid in salaries to certain employees who
have been classifying and crediting the old deposits received
prior to 1897. This expenditure is chargeable to arrears.
The current expenses of the Office are therefore considerably
more than met by the current receipts.

The above statement includes all disbursements except the
cost of furniture, of printing, and of binding, but only cash
receipts. In addition to cash fees, the copyright business
brings each year to the Government, in articles deposited,
property to the value of many thousands of dollars. During
the past fiscal year 203,767 such articles were received. The
value of those drawn up into the collections of the Library
far exceeded the amount of net cash earnings.

The work of the Copyright Office is divided into two parts :
(i) The current business, covering applications received
since the reorganization of the Office under the Register in
1897; (2) The arrears, the classification, crediting, and in-
dexing of the entries and deposits prior to 1897 (i. e., from
1870, when the copyright business was first placed under
the Librarian of Congress) .

On the 7th day of J uly ' I9I5) when the re P rt of the
Copyright Office was submitted, the remittances received

up to the third mail of the day had been recorded and ac-
knowledged; the account books of the bookkeeping division
were written up and posted to June 30, and the accounts
rendered to the Treasury Department were settled up to and

Report of the Librarian of Congress 27

including the month of June, while earned fees to June 30,
inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. All copyright
applications received up to and including June 30 had been
passed upon and refunds made.

The total unfinished business for the full 18 years from
July i, 1897, to June 30, 1915, amounts to but $1,605.74
against a total completed business for the same period of
$1,536,789-30.

At the close of business on July 7, 1915, the works de-
posited for copyright registration up to and including June
30 had all been recorded except 43 registrations in class A
and 70 in class B, as well as a large part of the publica-
tions received since that date.

The Catalogue of Copyright Entries, which since the
transfer of its publication from the Treasury Department
to the Library of Congress has been issued in four separate
parts, was continued in five annual volumes properly indexed.

During the fiscal year about 2,842 articles received prior Copyright busi-
ness prior to July

to July i , 1897, were examined preparatory to being credited *. ^07
to their respective entries, and 1,141 were duly credited.

During the past 18 years the business done by the Office
was as follows :

Total number of entries i, 935, 574

Total number of articles deposited 3, 441, 054

Total amount of fees received and applied. . . * $i, 536, 789. 30

Total expenditure for service $i, 306, 535. 28

Net receipts above expenses for service $230, 254. 02

During the 45 years since the copyright work became a
business of the Library of Congress the total number of
entries has been 2,816,430.

Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the Copyright Elimination of

act of 1909, 18,956 volumes have been transferred to the
Library from the deposits in the Copyright Office during the
fiscal year; 8,522 books have been deposited in governmental
libraries in the District of Columbia, and 42,607 articles
have been returned to copyright claimants, including 10,332

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books, 125 photographs, 17,729 prints, 2,929 contributions
to periodicals, 5,915 periodicals, 102 dramatic or musical
compositions, and 5,475 motion-picture films.
Panama Pa- Under the act of Congress approved September 18, 191 -*.

cific exposition:

Branch Copyright for the protection of foreign exhibitors at the Panama
Pacific exposition, of articles within the domain of patent
and copyright, a branch office was duly opened at San
Francisco for the registration of such articles. To the date
of the preparation of this report (September 15, 1915)
practically no registrations for copyright have been made,
and the sum ($15,000) appropriated for the expense of the
Copyright Branch has been but slightly drawn upon, the
less because, pending evidence of demand for such regis-
trations, the detail to San Francisco of a representative of
the office was deferred, the answer to inquiries as to copy-
right, should any be received, being courteously undertaken
at first by a representative of the Exposition authorities
and later by the representative of the Patent Office.

INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY: PRINTED MATERIAL*
(From the report of the Chief of the Order Division, Mr. Ashley)
Contents of the Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets made

Library June 30,

iQZ4. and June 30, in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the Library,
inclusive of the Law Library, at the close of the past two

fiscal years, were as follows :

Description

Contents of the Library

1914

1915

Gain

Books

2,253,309

2, 363, 873

no, 564

Manuscripts (a numerical state-
ment not feasible )

Maps and charts (pieces)

142,217

73, 955
376,812

147, 553
727,808

385, 757

5,336
23, 853
8,945

Music (volumes and pieces)
Prints (pieces)

* For Manuscripts, Maps, Music, and Prints see under those headings infra.

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Description

Net accessions

1914

1915

Printed books and pamphlets

125, 054

no, 564

Manuscripts (a numerical statement notfeasible)
Maps and charts (volumes and pieces)

6,489
32, 675
16,318
186

5.336
23*853

8,945

Music (volumes and pieces)

Prints (pieces)

Miscellaneous

The accessions of books and pamphlets during the past ACCESSIONS:

Books and

two years, in detail, classified by source, were as follows: pamphlets by

How acquired

1914

1915

By purchase

20, 534
14, 753

35,33i
- 4,890

3, 747

9, 829

31,060
5.979

66
7,612

4,164
9 6 34
i,3i3
559
& 14, 780

5, 783
3,085

599
225

By gift . .

By transfer from United States Government li-
braries

From the Public Printer by virtue of law

From the American Printing House for the
Blind

By International Exchange (from foreign Gov-
ernments)

7877

2,333
9,283
2,826
i,33i
a i5,8i5
2 3, 959
2,248

138

217

ve collections
ve collections

Gifts of the United States Government in all its
branches

Gifts from State governments

Gifts from local governments

Gifts from corporations and associations

Bv copyright . .

By Smithsonian'

By exchange (piece for piece)

By priced exchange

Library of Congress publications (specially
bound). ...

o This includes 353 volumes added to the jeser
6 This includes 145 volumes added to the rese

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How acquired

1914

1915

Gain of volumes by separation in binding and
by binding of books and periodicals previ-
ously uncounted or uncounted in their present
form

8,080

6, 824

Total added books, pamphlets, and
pieces

ICO, SIC

122, 2^0

DEDUCTIONS

By consolidation in binding

0, i -20

4, rco

Duplicates sent in exchange

6, ?i8

9. ?o6

Returns of college and library catalogues

1C, OI3

7, 830

25,461

21,695

Net accessions

125, O54

no, 564

These tables show a decrease of 1 2 per cent in the net total
of accessions, due in a large measure to the war in Europe.
That cause may not be at first apparent; for the item of
purchases our chief source of foreign accession shows a
heavy increase, wholly due, however, to purchases in the
Far East, considerable in volume though not in cost, for
which the plans were well under way before the war began.
Normal conditions in Europe would have added greatly to
this item. Most fortunately the power to carry forward
our unexpended balances, recently granted by Congress,
will convert what would otherwise have been a total loss
into a mere postponement for better opportunity. From
all the other sources of foreign accession the yield dimin-
ished: international exchanges, private gifts and foreign
copyrights in some degree, but the Smithsonian deposits
very notably.

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My Report for 1910-11 noted the bequest to the Library Harrisse bequest
by the late Henry Harrisse of " a full set of his own writings,
annotated; and miscellaneous books, maps and manu-
scripts on related topics." The death of Mr. Harrisse
occurred on May 13, 1910; and the provisions of the will
were communicated to us promptly. But the probate pro-
ceedings were slow, and they were complicated by litigation
which, though it did not bring into question the bequest to
the Library, suspended any distribution whatever of the
estate. And it was not until the beginning of the past
summer that the collection was actually delivered to our
representative in Paris, nor until August 7 that it arrived
in Washington.

We must make grateful acknowledgment to the staff of
the American Embassy at Paris for its interest and friendly
aid during the interim: in keeping watch of the probate
proceedings, in endeavoring to expedite delivery, in en-
suring identification of the material, and in satisfying the
executors and trustees of the legal competence of the
Library to receive and receipt for such a bequest.

The bequest was in the form of a codicil, executed on
March 3, 1910, and reading as follows:

"i. I bequeath to the Library of Congress of Wash-
ington City, United States, the complete collection of
my own works annotated by my own hand, and num-
bering about 150 volumes, large and small, all bound,
contained in the two bookcases of my library, labelled
under the letters E and F, containing besides, manu-
script maps, autographs and rare books, which are in-
cluded in this bequest.

"I desire that the wh olebe preserved in a special
bookcase of the said Library of Congress, exclusively
devoted to the said bequest, and that nothing shall
ever be sold or exchanged. This bequest is also made
free of succession duties."

32 Report of the Librarian of Congress

bequest, fhe collection consists of 22O volumes and pamphlets,
besides some packages and boxes of loose manuscript mate-
rial. Two hundred and three of the volumes and pam-
phlets represent the writings of Harrisse himself. The col-
lection includes all the writings listed by Vignaud 1 and by
Cordier 2 and a few not noted by them, and comprises proba-
-bly the only complete collection of Harrisse's writings in
existence. All the more important works are on fine paper,
usually in duplicate, and in most cases both copies are
enriched with the author's manuscript notes and inserted
illustrative material.

Of the 94 original writings credited to him, 80 deal with
some phase of American history during the period of explora-
tion and discovery; and of these 41, represented in the col-
lection by 98 volumes and pamphlets, deal with Columbus,
and largely with the points in controversy concerning him,
such as the date and place of his birth, his sepulture, the
letters, his life by Ferdinand, etc. Harrisse's most impor-
tant contribution to Columbus literature was doubtless
"Christophe Colomb, son origine, sa vie, ses voyages, sa
famille et ses descendants," Paris, 1884. 2 v. large 8vo.
The appearance of this while the second volume of Winsor's
Narrative and Critical History of America was passing
through the press, induced Mr. Winsor to add a lengthy
postscript to his bibliographical "Notes " in comment upon
it (v. 2, p. 88-92).

The "Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima " (issued in
1866, with Additions in 1872) is still considered by many
scholars as Harrisse's most important contribution to early
American history. In it he described 308 publications
relating to America which appeared between the years 1492
and 1551, whereas previous bibliographers had noted only

1 Henry Harrisse: fitude biographique et morale; avec la bibliographic critique de
ses ecrits. Palis, 1912. [The bibliography comprises 94 entries.]

2 Henry Harrisse, 1830-1910. [With a bibliogiaphy comprising 83 entries.] In the
Bulletin du Bibliophile, 15 Nov. 1910.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 33

58. One of the copies in the collection on Holland paper
has been expanded by interleaving to two volumes, and is
enriched with autograph notes, on the margins and inter-
leaves, of the greatest bibliographical, cartographical, and
historical interest, and sufficient in number to form a volume
by themselves.

The appearance of Harrisse's "Fernand Colomb. Sa vie,
ses reuvres," Paris, 1872 (previously issued in Spanish,
Sevilla, 1871), gave rise to a controversy regarding the
authenticity of the life of Columbus attributed to his son
Ferdinand. This material is well represented in the collec-
tion and quite fully annotated.

Other important works in this field, all represented by
fine copies with autograph notes, are, "The Discovery of
North America", 1892; "Decouverte et evolution carto-
graphique de Terre Neuve et des pays circonvoisins, 1479-
1501-1769," 1900; "Excerpta Colombiniana : Bibliographic
de quatre cents pieces gothiques, francaises, italiennes, &
latines du commencement du xvi e siecle non decrites
jusqu'ici," 1877; "John Cabot, the discoverer of America,
and Sebastian, his son," 1896. On a fly leaf of this last
volume under date of November 22, 1895 is the note:
"The present is, out of eighty-seven, my best work! Hy.
Hsse."

Among the printed books in the collection are two of great
rarity. One is the "Bibliotheca Barlowiana," of which
only 4 copies were printed (in New York in 1864). It is
a descriptive catalogue of the rarest Americana in the col-
lection of Samuel L. M. Barlow. The other is the "Letters
of Christopher Columbus describing his first voyage to the
western hemisphere," New York, 1865, of which only 10
copies were printed.

Of the miscellaneous items worthy of mention are an
autograph letter by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, and a fine

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bequest, copy of Antonio de Remesal's " Historia general de las Indias
occidentals, " Madrid, 1620.

The maps, though few in number, are notable. Cham-
plain's original manuscript map of Canada, 1607, on parch-
ment, would be an important addition to any collection.
The original manuscript map on vellum, "Description du
pais des Hurons, 1631," has also a particular interest for the
region of the great lakes. [The above two maps are de-
scribed by Gabriel Marcel in his " Cartographic de la nouvelle
France," Paris, 1885, page 6.] Lastly, an important series
of manuscript maps of parts of North and Central America
drawn by Ivan Vingbooms, cartographer to the Prince of
Nassau, in 1639, in three thin folio volumes, show the West
Indies, New Netherlands, Florida, California, Manatus,
Godyn's Bay (Delaware Bay), and Noort Pvivier.

Among the miscellaneous manuscripts are two works of
interest to bibliographers. One is an extensive, classified
bibliography of Christopher Columbus; the other a bio-
bibliography of all the more important persons connected
with the discovery and exploration of America during the
first half century. Both are on cards in the handwriting of
Harrisse.

In a letter to me written (December 25, 1908), while the
bequest was in contemplation, Mr. Harrisse remarked of the
set of his own works embraced in it: "The whole constitutes
the results of nearly forty years of exclusive and laborious
efforts in the field of American History, Geography and
Cartography." Both the efforts and the results are too well
known to require review here. 1 I merely note here, as of
general interest, that though born abroad, and for the major
portion including the last forty years of his life a resident of
Paris, Mr. Harrisse resided in the United States during most

1 They are summarized in the two essays (by Mr. Vignaud and by Mr. Cordier) which
I have cited, and in a brief bio-bibliographical sketch by Adolph Growoll printed for the
Dibdin Club in 1899.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 35

of his youth and early manhood at first in the Carolinas,
where (supporting himself by teaching) he qualified for the
bar, and later in Chicago and New York, where he practiced
law, not returning to France until the eve of the Franco-
Prussian war. It was indeed a fortunate contact here (with
Mr. S. Iy. M. Barlow in 1864-65) that established his interest
in early Americana, and determined the main field of his
researches. His practice became large and lucrative; but
neither here nor subsequently in France did it absorb him to
the exclusion of the studies which were his private passion.
The industry and ardor which he expended upon these were
indeed extraordinary and widely recognized; and if the
"results" were not accorded a treatment generous enough
wholly to satisfy him, this was doubtless (as his biographers
assert) because of the severity of his own attitude in con-
troversy, which tended to embitter his opponents and grad-
ually to alienate even his friends; so that in his later years
he seems to have felt isolated from the cordialities of schol-
arship. It was on this account the more desirable that this
collection, which embodies the complete record of his in-
dustry and enthusiasm, should be placed and preserved here
intact, to make its own proof of the man and his work and
its unimpaired contribution to science.

The largest single gift of printed books came from Mrs. GIFTS:
Ridgely Hunt, a collection of 316 volumes, chiefly Italian Hunt
works from the library of the late William Cruger Pell, but
including many other desirable books.

Mrs. Ida Husted Harper increased substantially our HarpeT
source material for the history of the movement for
woman suffrage by the gift of 1 2 specially prepared volumes
embodying the results of many years of writing for the
press, of systematic collection during the same period, and
of many recent months of labor spent by Mrs. Harper in a
careful, logical arrangement of the material for permanent
preservation in usable form. The collection includes prac-

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tically all that appeared in the department entitled "The
Cause of Woman," conducted by Mrs. Harper in the New
York Sun, 1899-1903. This material was preserved by
Miss Susan B. Anthony with a view to its ultimate deposit
in the Library of Congress. It constitutes a full connected
record of current events in the suffrage movement. Later
volumes preserve a large body of the more fugitive litera-
ture of the California campaign for suffrage, 1896-1900;
current reports of the various International Councils and
Congresses held in Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam,
Geneva, London, Budapest, Rome, and The Hague, 1904-
1914; miscellaneous printed addresses, and newspaper and
magazine articles. Throughout the collection are inter-
spersed hundreds of portraits, autograph letters, and per-
sonal memorabilia of the leaders in the suffrage cause.

The more notable gifts of individual volumes included
the following :
GIFTS: From M. Jules Charles-Roux a copy of his "Souvenirs

Miscellaneous

du passe; le Cercle artistique de Marseille; avec une gravure
au burin, trente et une heliogravures, deux planches en
couleur hors texte, six cent quatre-vingt-six dessins origi-
naux et illustrations dans le texte. Paris, A. Lemerre,
1906."

From Mr. Louis C. Tiffany a copy of "The art work of
Louis C. Tiffany. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page
& company, 1914."

From Mr. Joseph E. Widener a copy of "Pictures in the
collection of P. A. B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins
Park, Pennsylvania. Early German, Dutch & Flemish
schools. . . Philadelphia, Priv. print., 1913-"

From Mr. George lies a copy of the very scarce "Biog-
raphy of Ottman Mergenthaler and history of the linotype,
its invention and development. Baltimore, Md., 1898."

Report of the Librarian of Congress 37

From Mr. J. P. Morgan a copy of Part 3 of the "Baby-
lonian records in the library of J. Pierpont. Morgan, ed. by
Albert T. Clay."

From Mr. Nieh Chi-Cheh, Vice Chairman of the Honorary
Commercial Commission from the Republic of China, a
copy of the diary of his grandfather, His Excellency Chen
Kuo-fan, in 40 volumes.

The Publisher's Weekly of May 29, 191 5, contained the
following :

"As is well known, the Library of Congress receives
all books copyrighted in the United States and prints
and distributes catalog cards for them. In order that
books which are not copyrighted in the United States
may be more fully represented on its shelves and in its
stock of printed cards, the Library of Congress invites
publishers to present to it copies of books imported by
them even if no copyright in the United States is
claimed by them. The name of the publisher who
imports the book is given on the card as a matter of
routine when it is given in the imprint. When the
name of the importer does not appear in the imprint, it
will hereafter be added on the card in brackets provided
that it is given on a slip pasted below the imprint.
The price of the book, if supplied, will also be given on
the card. The publicity afforded the importing pub-
lisher through the printed card distribution service of
the national library should prove an excellent recom-
pense for the single copy of the work necessary to
secure this entry. The Library charges the importer
no fees."

Largely as a result of this we received before June 30
from Richard G. Badger, 7 volumes; from the Bloch Pub-
lishing Company, 14 volumes; from the Funk & Wagnalls
Company, 9 volumes; from Henry Holt and Company, 16
volumes; from B. W. Huebsch, 6 volumes; from the John
Lane Company, 55 volumes; from Charles Scribner's Sons,

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i volume; from the Frederick A. Stokes Company, 9
volumes.
BEQUEST: The will of the late Judge John Forrest Dillon of New

John F. Dillon

York contained the following clause :

"I give to the Congressional Library, Washington,
D. C., for use of law library of the Supreme Court of
the United States, the eight volumes of original ad-
dresses compiled by me (with portraits and correspond-
ence) delivered throughout the United States on
Marshall day, 1901."

Judge Dillon's deep interest in John Marshall, evidenced
by his "Life, character and judicial services of Chief Justice
Marshall," has now enriched the Library of Congress with
this unique collection, most valuable and interesting, of
some 137 printed addresses, 159 portraits, and 309 auto-
graph letters from the legal notables of the country in
tribute to the great expounder of the Constitution.

PURCHASES: , , , - -~ TT . T _

Chinese litera- Last year s report noted the services of Dr. Hmg Kwai
Fung in selecting a large number of representative Chinese
works. These services ended early in this fiscal year with
the delivery of a still larger collection, 10,741 volumes,
chiefly collected works, encyclopaedias, history, geography,
archaeology, and epigraphy.

The largest and most important part of this new accession
consists of Ts'ung shoo or Collectanea, the significance of
which is thus stated by Dr. Berthold Laufer: "Many ancient
and most interesting writings have been preserved only in
these repositories, a class of publications corresponding to
our 'Series' or 'Library' and usually containing the first
printed editions of ancient manuscripts. In some -cases
these collections are of a heterogeneous nature, since they
include only such rare books as chanced to fall into the hands
of an individual or a publishing house. In other cases they
are arranged according to a plan well mapped out beforehand,
comprising the writers of certain periods or limited to certain

Report of the Librarian of Congress 39

classes of literature, as philosophy, poetry, geography, or
medicine."

Of these collections or repositories, the present accession
embraces 101 different series, varying in extent from a few
volumes up to the Chi fu ts'ung shoo in 438 volumes and the
T'ung chi Vang Ching in 480, the whole group of collectanea
containing 4,644 volumes.

Historical treatises number 1,925 volumes, including an
early Palace edition of the dynastic history known asNien
ssu shih, in 602 volumes. The term Palace edition is applied
to works issued in the reigns of K'ang-hi and K'ien-lung
from the imperial printing office, which was established by
decree of the Emperor K'ang-hi in 1 680 in a series of build-
ings southwest of the Palace City. The establishment with
all its stock of blocks and types was destroyed by an acci-
dental fire in 1869 and Palace editions are becoming rare
and eagerly sought for. Those in the present accession
comprise 870 volumes.

Epigraphy is well represented by 30 works in 221 volumes.
The investigation of ancient inscriptions has long been
studiously pursued by the Chinese. Thousands of early
records on stone have been published in facsimile, many of
them exceedingly important and interesting documents.
Among the more valuable works of this character now
added are the Kin shi tsui pien, a comprehensive collection
of ancient inscriptions down to the end of the Kin dynasty,
compiled by Wang Ch'ang and published in 1805; the K'ew
koo tsing shdy kin shih t'oo, a collection of facsimiles of in-
scriptions on vessels, coins, and seals, published in 1818 by
Ch'in King; the Kin shih shk, a series of criticisms on lapi-
dary inscriptions by K6 Tsung-ch'ang; the Kin shi k'e, a
treatise on various antiquities in metal, stone, and earthen-
ware by Chang Yen-ch'ang, published in 1778; the Ming
edition of the Kin shi yun fob, a dictionary of the ancient

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characters found in bronze and stone inscriptions; Tao
chai chi chin lu, an illustrated catalogue of the collection of
the Viceroy Tuan Fang which was intended as the nucleus
of a national museum; Kwdn miao chai ts'ang chin shih
wen k'ao lueh by Le Kwang-ying, being notices of the char-
acters found in a large collection of inscriptions. This
group, with similar works added last year, puts us in posses-
sion of much of the material necessary for satisfactory in-
vestigation of Chinese antiquities.

Encyclopaedias in this accession number 14, comprised in
652 volumes, including the Pao edition of the T'ae ping yu
Ian; the San tsae t'oo h^y, a comprehensive cyclopaedia of
arts and sciences compiled by Wang K'e; and the Kwang
po wuh che by Tung Sze-chang finished in 1607.

Chinese topographical writings are said to be probably
unrivaled for extent and systematic comprehensiveness.
Separate works exist regarding every portion of the Empire.
Their practical value in the solution of our own commercial
and agricultural problems is yearly receiving wider recogni-
tion. The present accession includes 1,842 volumes of this
class, embracing in addition to general works, 7 treatises
each on a particular province, 13 relating' to particular pre-
fectures, 7 to separate departments, and 43 to smaller
districts.

The assignment of Dr. Walter T. Swingle of the Bureau
of Plant Industry to an investigation in China and Japan,
in the interests of the Department of Agriculture, afforded
us another desirable opportunity for judicious selection of
items needed to round out the Chinese collection. Dr.
Swingle's first purchase for our account contained 1,409
volumes, including 116 volumes issued during the Ming
dynasty or earlier, 260 volumes of geographical works, and
147 volumes of collectanea. As this undertaking is still in
progress at this writing, extended statement of the results
is reserved for the future.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 41

Our East Asiatic collection (Chinese, Manchu, Mongol,
Tibetan and Japanese) is now in excess of 45,000 volumes.
Aside from the casual accretions of the past 60 years, its
principal constituent groups are these:

(a) The beginning of the collection is due to the in-
terest of Hon. Caleb Gushing, our first minister to China,
who in 1844 negotiated the earliest treaty between the
United States and the Emperor of China. Upon his
return he brought with him well selected standard works,
history, medicine, classics, poetry, ritualism, essays, and
dictionaries e. g., the "Thirteen classics" in 366 vol-
umes, Choo He's history in 210; in all 2,547 volumes.

(ft) The present eminence of the collection is due to
the late William Woodville Rockhill, who, by large gifts,
by lasting interest, by the unselfish labor of years ap-
plied with special knowledge of the languages and litera-
ture, not only raised our resources to distinction but
supplied the impetus which has since brought them to
commanding rank among Western collections.

Interested even from his boyhood in Tibetan Bud-
dhism, he had acquired a good knowledge of written
Tibetan before he went to China as second secretary of
the American legation in 1884. Always a student of the
broadest vision he applied himself during the following
years not alone to the increasing responsibilities of his
advancing posts but to a thorough study of Chinese and
of spoken Tibetan under the guidance of an intelligent
lama, from Lh'asa, whose friendship he had gained. He
learned the languages of remote districts ; he became an
authority on things Chinese.

These studies could scarcely have been so long sus-
tained without the possession of a sympathetic insight
into the Chinese character. It was this combination of
interest, friendly feeling, and profound knowledge that
carried him through two long, dangerous journeys of
exploration in regions never before trodden by a white
man, that afterwards brought about his appointment as
Special Commissioner to China to aid in the settlement
of the Boxer troubles, that made him so successful as
Ambassador to China, and that finally led President

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Yuan Shi-kai to select him to be adviser to the Chinese
Republic. He was on his way to assume the duties of
this crowning trust when he died at Honolulu, December
8, 1914.

Mr. Rockhill brought, therefore, to conditions of place
and time most favorable for collecting, the Western
viewpoint, profound knowledge of the material and the
broad interest of the scholar, traveler, diplomat, and
student of international affairs. These intimations of
his opportunities to acquire and his ability to select
suggest the value of his benefactions which in the
course of years exceeded 6,000 volumes.

(c) At the close of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
the Chinese government, through its legation at Wash-
ington, presented the books which formed part of the
Chinese exhibit, 1,965 volumes.

(d) In 1907 Dr. Kan Ichi Asakawa, of the faculty of
Yale University, with the assistance of other Japanese
authorities, carefully selected a good working collection
for the student of Japanese literature, history, and
institutions, probably not equaled outside of Japan,
9,072 works.

(<?) The Chinese government in 1908 sent by the
special ambassador charged with the acknowledgments
of China to the United States for the remission of the
"Boxer indemnity," a complete set of the Tu shu tsi
cheng or Chinese encyclopaedia, in 5,041 volumes.

(/) After more than a year spent in the Library of
Congress in classifying and cataloguing the Chinese
collection, Dr. Hing Kwai Fung, thus specially ac-
quainted with the contents of the collection as then
constituted, and qualified by knowledge of his native
language and literature, selected the large groups
described supra and in last year's report, his selections
numbering in all 17,208 volumes.

(g) Dr. Walter T. Swingle, long interested in the
Chinese collection as a valuable source of information
on present day agricultural problems, and thoroughly
familiar with its content, is at present making impor-
tant additions to it, the first of which, as noted above,
numbers 1,409 volumes.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 43

The special effort begun three years ago to build up a PURCHASES:
strong collection of the literature of the fine arts has been tec j re ""
sustained. Professor Richard A. Rice has continued his
careful selection of representative works and of most desir-
able copies when a choice of copies is offered. The cumu-
lative fruits of this selective service in the market, the
constant yields of the copyright law, and the benefactions
of governments and private collectors are combining to form
here a collection both superior in quality and impressive in
extent. The most significant single accession in this cate-
gory is a good copy of the first edition of

" Die geuerlicheiten vnd eins teils der geschichten des loblichen
streytparen vnd hochberumbten helds vnd fitters herr Tewr-
dannckhs. [Colophon: Gedruckt in der kayserlichen stat Nurn-
berg durch den eltern Hannsen Sch6nsperger burger zu Augspurg. "

This work of Maximilian I of Germany and his secretaries,
Melchior Pfintzing and Marx Treitz-Saurwein, is of present
day artistic interest for its 118 woodcuts, chiefly by Hans
Schauefelein. This copy is on paper. The Library already
had the second variety of the second edition, 1519.

Another highly desirable acquisition is Victorien Sardou's
copy of

Opera Hrosvite, illvstris virginis et monialis gerniane, gente
saxonica orte, nvper a Conrado Celte inventa. . . [Colophon:
Finis operum Hrosuithse. . . Impressum Norunbergae sub
Priuilegio Sodalitatis Celticae a Senatu Rhomani Imperil impe-
trato. Anno christi Quingentesimoprimo supra Millesimnm.
[1501]

The special interest here is in eight full page woodcuts
attributed to Durer. This copy was bound by Duru, 1855,
in full brown morocco.

A third rare item is a copy of the first edition of

"The art of graveing and etching, wherein is exprest the true
way of Graveing in Copper, allso The manner and method of that
famous Callot, & Mr. Bosse, in their Severall ways of Etching,"
London, published by Wm. Faithorne, 1662.

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Of varying interest and value are the several items in the
following brief list selected from the great volume of acces-
sions as illustrative of the year's growth in this particular
direction :

Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae, quae in publicis priuatisque

locis visuntur, icones [pars secunda] Romae, ex typis Gottifredi de

Scaichis, 1621. 8c pi.
Apfelstedt, F. Beschreibende darstellung der alteren bau- mid

kunstdenkmaler des fiirstenthums Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Unter den auspicien der fiirstl. staatsregierung hrsg. vom Fiirstl.

schwarzburg. alterihumsverein ... Bearb. von F. Apfelstedt ...

Sondershausen, In commission bei F. Bertram, 1886-87.
L 'architecture et la decoration au palais du Louvre & des Tuileries ...

Paris, Librairie centrale d'art et d 'architecture [1905-07]. 2 v.
L 'architecture & la sculpture a 1 'Exposition de 1900 ... Paris,

A. Guerinet [1904]. 5 v.
Architecture, peinture et sculpture de la Maison de ville d 'Amsterdam,

representee en CIX. figures en taille-douce. Amsterdam, D. Mortier,

1719.
Bagatti Valsecchi, Fausto. Qvi si contengono le tavole rappresentanti

li disegni de la casa de li fratelli Bagati Valsechi che ritrovasi in

Milano . . . riprodotti dal vero con la nvova inventione de la eliotipia.

Favsti et losephi fratrvm de Bagatis opvs an. Dni MDCCCXCV.

[Milano, Tip. Bernardoni di C. Rebeschini, 1898.]
Baglione, Giovanni. Le vite de' pittori, scultori, architetti, ed

intagliatori, dal pontificato di Gregorio XIII. del 1572. fino a' tempi

di papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642. scritte da Gio: Baglione Romano.

Con la vita di Salvator Rosa Napoletano, pittore, e poeta, scritta da

Gio: Batista Passari, nuovamente aggiunta. Napoli, 1733.
Baillie-Grohman, William Adolph. Sport in art; an iconography of

sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth

to the end of the eighteenth centuries, by William A. Baillie-
Grohman . . . with two hundred and forty-three illustrations. London,

Ballantyne and co., ltd. [1913].
Barriere, Dominique. Villa Aldobrandina tvscvlana; siue uarij

illius hortorum et fontium prospectus. Dominicus Barriere Mas-

siliensis inue. & deline. & sculp. Romae, 1647.
Basan, Pierre Francois. Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes,

depuis 1'origine de la gravure, par F. Basan ... 2. ed., mise par

ordre alphabetique, considerablement augm. & ornee de cinquante

estampes par differens artistes celebres, ou sans aucune, au gre de

1'amateur ... Paris, L'auteur [etc.] 1789. 2 v.
Basoli, Antonio. Collezione di varie scene teatrali per uso degli

amatori, e studenti di belle arti. Bologna, L'autore, 1821.
Die bau- und kunstdenkmaler des herzogtums Oldenburg. Bearb.

im auftrage des Grossherzoglichen staatsministeriums ... Oldenburg,

G. Stalling, 1896-1909. 5 v.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 45

Berty, Adolphe. La renaissance monumentale en France; specimens
de composition et d 'ornementation architectoniques, empruntes
aux Edifices construits depuis le regne de Charles VIII jusqu'a
celui de Louis XIV, par Adolphe Berty ... Paris, A. Morel et c e ,
1864. 2 v.

Bode, Wilhelm. Franz Hals: his life and his work. English text,
and 200 photogravure plates with about 80 text illustrations. Berlin,
Photograph ische Gesellschaft, 1914.

Bourcard, Gustave. ... La cote des estampes des differentes ecoles
anciennes et modernes; prix atteints dans les ventes publiques en
France et a 1'etranger de 1900 a 1912. Paris, D. Morgand, E. Rahir,
succ r , 1912.

Bracci, Domenico Agostino. Memorie degli antichi incisori che scol-
pirono i loro nomi in gemme e cammei con molti monumenti inediti
di antichita, statue, bassirilievi, gemme; opera di Domenico Augusto
Bracci ... Firenze, G. Cambiagi, stampatore, 1784-86. 2 v.

Buschmann, P. Exposition de 1 'oeuvre de Antoine van Dyck, organisee
par la ville d'Anvers a 1'occasion du 300 anniversaire de la naissance
du maitre; illustre de 30 heliogravures d'apres les originaux. Paris,
Societ6 d 'edition artistique, 1900.

Caravaggio, Polidoro Caldara, known as. Opere di Polidoro da Caravag-
gio, disegnate, et intagliate, da Gio: Baptista Galestruzzi, pittore
fiorentino. Roma, L'autore, 1658.

Chabat, Pierre. La brique et la terre cuite; etude historique de 1'em-
ploi de ces materiaux ; fabrication et usages ; motifs de construction
et de decoration, choisis dans 1 'architecture des differents peuples ...
Paris, V e A. Morel et cie, 1881.

Cima, Giuseppe. L ' addobbatore moderno; ossia, Raccolta di 300
tavole rappresentanti oggetti d ' arti e manifatture desunte dalle piu
recenti mode originali e straniere, disegnate da Giuseppe Cima ...
Milano, A. Vallardi [1830]. 6 v.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Mediaeval Sinhalese art, byAnanda K.
Coomaraswamy ... being a monograph on mediaeval Sinhalese arts
and crafts, mainly as surviving in the eighteenth century, with an
account of the structure of society and the status of the craftsmen.
[Broad Campden, Essex house press, 1908].

Costaguti, Giovanni Battista, the elder. Architettvra della basilica di
S. Pietro in Vaticano, opera di Bramante Lazzari, Michel' Angelo
Bonarota, Carlo Maderni, ed altri f amosi architetti ... Roma, Stampe-
ria della Reuerenda camera apostolica, 1684.

Courajod , Louis Charles Jean . ... Lecons professees & 1 'Ecole du Louvre
(1887-1896) pub. sous la direction de MM. Henry Lemonnier et Andre
Michel ... Paris, A. Picard et fils, 1899-1903. 3 v.

Cranach, Lucas. Passional Christi und Antichristi. Lucas Cranach's
holzschnitte mit dem texte von Melanchthon. Wittemberg, J.
Griininger, 1521.

Crane, Walter. The first of May, a fairy masqve; presented in a series
of 52 designs, by Walter Crane. London [etc.] H. Sotherari & co.,
1881.

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Dank6, J6zsef Karoly. Geschichtliches, beschreibendes und urkund-

liches aus dem Graner domschatze. Gran [Druck von A. Holzhausen

in Wien] 1880.
Delacroix, Eugene i. e. Ferdinand Victor Eugene. Le voyage de

Eugene Delacroix au Maroc; fac-simile de 1 'album du Chateau de

Chantilly (soixante-six pages d 'aquarelles, dessins, croquis et notes

du maitre). Introduction et description par Jean Guiffrey ... Paris,

J. Terquem & cie [etc.] 1913.
Dessau. Herzogliche behordenbibliothek. Handzeichnungen deut-

scher meister in der Herzogl. anhaltschen behordenbibliothek zu

Dessau, hrsg. von Max J. Friedlander. Stuttgart, F. Krais, 1914.
Deutsche dichtungenmitrandzeichnungendeutscher kiinstler ... Diis-

seldorf, J. Buddeus [1849-50.]
Donadini, Ermenegildo Antonio. Die grabdenkmaler der erlauchten

Wettiner fiirsten in der kurfiirstlichen begrabnisskapelle des domes

zu Meissen. Donadini ... [und] prof. dr. G. Aarland ... Leipzig,

Druck von C. Grumbach, 1898.
Douglas, John, architect, of Chester. Abbey square sketch book ... John

Douglas, architect, Chester, direxit. Liverpool, Printed by A. Mac-

gregor, 1872490?]. 3 v.
Diirer, Albrecht. ... Divae Mariae historia (Marienleben) a Marco Ant.

Raimundi inc. [Venetiis, 150-?]
Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, $d earlof. Notes

on Irish architecture. By Edwin, third earl of Dunraven. Ed. by

Margaret Stokes ... London, G. Bell and sons, 1875-77. 2 v.
Du Perac, Etienne. I vestigi dell' antichita di Roma, raccolti et

ritratti in perspettiva con ogni diligentia da Stefano dv Perac Pari-

sino. Roma, C. Losi, 1773.
Ebersolt, Jean. Les eglises de Constantinople, par Jean Ebersolt ...

[et] Adolphe Thiers ... Paris, E. Leroux, 1913.
Ertinger, Franz Ferdinand. Des bildhauergesellen Franz Ferdinand

Ertinger reisebeschreibung durch Osterreich und Deutschland.

Nach der handschrift Cgm. 3312 der Kgl. hof- und staatsbibliothek,

Miinchen, hrsg. von E. Tietze-Conrad. Wien, K. Graeser & k ie ;

[etc., etc.] 1907.
Faucheux, Louis Etienne. ... Catalogue raisonne de toutes les

estampes, qui forment 1'oeuvre grave d'Adrien van Ostade, par

L. E. Faucheux ... Paris, V Te J. Renouard, 1862.
Filarete, Antonio Averlino, known as. Antonio Averlino Filarete's

Tractat uber die baukunst nebst seinen buchern von der zeichen-

kunst und den bauten der Medici. Zum ersten male hrsg. und

bearb. von d r . Wolfgang von Oettingen ... Mit 15 abbildungen itn

text ... Wien, C. Graeser, 1896.
Forain, Jean Louis. ... J.-L- Forain, aquafortiste ; catalogue raisonn6

de 1'oeuvre grave de 1'artiste, avec une eau-forte originale. Paris,

H. Floury, 1912. 2 v.
Fumagalli, Carlo. ... Reminiscenze di storia ed arte nel svbvrbio e

nella citta di Milano ... Milano, Tip. Pagnoni, 1891-92. 3 v.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 47

Gallo, Agostino. Vita di Angelo Marini, Siciliano, insigne scultore
ed architetto del secolo xvi., per la prima volta messo in luce da
Agostino Gallo ... Palermo, Tipografia Barcellona, 1862.

Gelis-Didot, Pierre. ... H6tels et maisons de Paris; facades et details,
relevds et dessines par P. Gelis-Didot, avec le concours de Th.
Lambert. Paris, Librairies-imprimeries reunies, 1893.

Grandjean de Montigny, Auguste Henri Victor. Architecture toscane,
ou Palais, maisons, et autres edifices de la Toscane, mesures et
dessines par A. Grandjean de Montigny et A. Famin ... Paris,
Impr. de P. Didot 1'alne, 1815.

Les grands chateaux de France ... Douai, Impr. P. Dutilleux, 1897.
2 v.

Grimouard de Saint- Laurent, Henri Leonard, comte. Guide de 1'art
chr^tien; etudes d'esthetique et d'iconographie, par le C te de
Grimouard de Saint- Laurent ... Paris, Librairie archeologique de
Didron; [etc., etc.] 1872-75. 6 v.

Gualandi, Michel Angelo, ed. Nuova raccolta di lettere sulla pittura,
scultura ed architettura, scritte da' piu celebri personaggi dei
secoli xv. a xix. con note ed illustrazioni di Michelangelo Gua-
landi, in aggiunta a quella data in luce da Mons. Bottari e dal Ticozzi
... Bologna, A spese dell' editore ed annotatore, 1844-56. 3 v.

Heures de Turin; quarante-cinq feuillets & peintures provenant des
Tres belles heures de Jean de France, due de Berry; reproduction
en phototypie d'apres les originaux de la Biblioteca nazionale de
Turin et du Musee du Louvre. Paris [Typ. P. Renouard] 1902.

Hoffmann, Ludwig. Der Reichsgerichtsbau zu Leipzig. Gesammt-
ansichten und einzelheiten nach den mit maassen versehenen
original-zeichnungen der facaden und der innenraume, sowie natur-
aufnahmen der bemerkenswerthesten theile dieses in den jahren
1887 bis 1895 errichteten gebaudes. Berlin, New York, B. Hessling
[1898].

Hogarth, William. The original works of William Hogarth. London,
Sold by J. and J. Boydell, 1790.

Hollar, Wenceslaus. Theatrv Mvliervm, sive Varietas atq>. Diffe-
rentia Habituum Foeminei Sexus diuersorum Europae Nationum
hodierno Tempore vulgo in vsu a Wenceslao Hollar, etc. Bohemo
delineatae et aqva forti aeri sculptae Londini A 1643. W. H.
[Coat of arms] London, Printed and sold by Henry Overton at
the Wite Horse without Newgate.

Humann, Georg. Die kunstwerke der Miinsterkirche zu Essen; 72
lichtdrucktafeln ... hrsg. von dem Kirchenvorstande der St.
Johannes-gemeinde in Essen, beschrieben von Georg Humann.
Diisseldorf, L. Schwann, 1904.

Inghirami, Francesco. Pitture di vasi etruschi esibite del cavaliere
Francesco Inghirami, per servire di studio alia mitologia ed alia
storia degli antichi popoli. 2. ed. ... Firenze, A. Tozzetti, 1852-56.
4V.

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Israels, Jozef. Jozef Israels en zijn kunst, met tekst van Jan Veth.
Arnhem en Nijmegen, Gebroeders E. & M. Cohen [1904.]

Jackson, Charles James. English goldsmiths and their marks: a history
of the goldsmiths and plate workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland;
with over eleven thousand marks, reproduced in fac -simile from
authentic examples of plate, and tables of date -letters and other
hall-marks employed in the assay offices of the United Kingdom.
London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1905.

Jannoni, Giovanni. ... Saggi di architettura e decorazione italiana
illustrati da M. Giovanni lannoni ... Roma, E. Maccari [187-?].

Kleiner, Salomon. Francofurtum ad Moenum floridum, seu Vrbis
hujus imperialis et emporij celeberrimi, in quo imperatores eliguntur,
vera et accurata delineatio, et repraesentatio ejus ecclesiarum, tur-
rium et fundationum, quin imo aedium, platearum, fororum, loco-
rumpa publicorum in vrbe et extra vrbem, uti et pons ejus cum molis
suis, nee non oppidum illud quod Sachsenhausen vocant, amatoribus
talium repraesentationum in gratiam oculis subjectum secundum
suam existentiam delineatum a Salomone Kleiner ... Das florirende
Franckfurth am Mayn ... Augspurg, J. A. Pfeffel, 1738.

Kokuho-Gwajo. Japanese temples and their treasures. Compiled
by the Department of Home Affairs. Tokyo, The Shimbi Shoin, ltd.,

Lafond, Paul. Hieronymus Bosch son art, son influence, ses disci-
ples par Paul Lafond ... Bruxelles et Paris, G. van Oest &cie, 1914.

Lampe, Louis. Signatures et monogrammes des peintres de toutes les
ecoles; guide monogrammiste indispensable aux amateurs de pein-
tures anciennes, par Louis Lampe ... Bruxelles, A. Castaigne, 1895-
98. 3 v.

Lauer, Philippe i. e. Jean Philippe. ... Le palais de Latran; etude
historique et archeologique par Ph. Lauer ... ouvrage accompagne
de 143 figures, de 34 planches hors texte et d'un plan. Paris, E.
Leroux, 1911.

Lefevre-Pontalis, Eugene Amedee. L 'architecture religieuse dans
1'ancien diocese de Soissons au XI s et xn e siecle, par Eugene Le-
fevre-Pontalis ... Paris, Typ. de E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1894-96.
2 v.

Le Lieur, Jacques. "Le livre enchaine"; ou, Livre des fontaines de
Rouen; manuscrit de la Bibliotheque de Rouen, 1524-1525, par Jacques
Le Lieur, seigneur de Bresmetot et du Bosc-Benard-Commin, ancien
echevin de Rouen, notaire et secretaire du roi, prince des Palinods ...
publi6 integralement par Victor Sanson ... Rouen, Impr. L. Wolf,
1911.

Lepere, Auguste. Rouen illustre; portefeuille contenant 14 gravures
sur bois originales de Auguste Lepere. Paris, E. Sagot, 1913.

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo. Trattato dell* arte della pittvra, scoltvra,
et architettvra, di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo ... diuiso in sette libri. Ne'
qvali si discorre de la proportione, de' moti. de' colori. de' lumi. de
la prospettiua. de la prattica de la pittura. et finalmente de le istorie
d'essa pittura. Con vna tauola de' nomi de tutti li pittori, scoltori,

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architetti, & matematici antichi, & moderni ... In Milano, Per P. G.
Pontio, stampatore regio, a instantia di P. Tini, 1584.

Lotz, Wilhelm. Kunst- topographic Deutschlands. Ein bans- und reise-
handbuch fiir kiinstler, gelehrte und freunde unserer alten kunst,
von dr. Wilhelm Lotz ... Cassel, T. Fischer, 1862-63. 2 v -

[Magnan, Dominique]. Iconarii universalis tentamen, sev Rerum om-
nium imagines, in sere elegantius incisae, ac ordine litterarum dis-
positae. A. P. D. M. O. M. P. ... Romas, ex typ. Archangeli Casa-
letti, 1776-77. 4 v.

Magne, Emile. Nicolas Poussin, premier peintre du roi, 1594-1665
(documents inedits) suivi d'un catalogue raisonne et accompagn6
de la reproduction de 145 de ses tableaux et dessins, de deux por-
traits, autographes et autres documents, par Emile Magne. Bruxelles
& Paris, G. van Oest & cie, 1914.

Maillard, Leon. ... Les menus & programmes illustres; invitations
billets de faire part cartes d'adresse petites estampes du xvn e
siecle jusqu'a nos jours. Ouvrage orne de quatre cent soixante re-
productions d'apres les documents originaux des meilleurs artistes.
Paris, G. Boudet [etc.]. 1898.

Maximilian I, emperor of Germany. Freydal. Des kaisers Maximilian
I. turniere und mummereien ... mit einer geschichtlichen einlei-
tung, einem facsimilirten namens-verzeichnisse und 255 heliogra-
vuren ... Wien, A. Holzhausen, 1880-1882.

Metzger, Johann. Beschreibung des Heidelberger schlosses und gar-
tens. Nach griindlichen untersuchungen und den vorziiglichsten
nachrichten bearb. von Johann Metzger ... Mit vielen ansichten und
grundrissen. Heidelberg, L. Meder [1829?]

Milanesi, Gaetano. Documenti per la storia dell' arte senese, raccolti
ed illustrati dal dott. Gaetano Milanesi ... Siena, O. Porri, 1854-56.
3V.

Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria. Alfabeto in sogno; esemplare per diseg-
nare di Givseppe M. a Mitelli, pittore bolognese, MDCLXXXIII. [Bo-
logna? -1683].

Model, Julius. Der franzosische farbenstich des xvni. jahrhunderts,
hrsg. von Julius Model und Jaro Springer. Stuttgart & Berlin,
Deutsche verlags-anstalt [1912].

Moreau-Nelaton, Etienne. ... Les eglises de chez nous ; arondissement
deSoissons ... Paris, H. Laurens, 1914. 3 v.

Nolhac, Pierre i. e. Annet Marie Pierre Giraud de. ... Le Trianon de
Marie Antoinette. Paris, Goupil & cie, Manzi, Joyant & cie, succ.,
1914.

Nouveau recueil de vues des plus beaux restes de Rome ancienne et des
plus belles eglises, places, palais et fontaines de Rome moderne,
dessinees, et gravees par dTiabiles maitres en 50 feuilles. Rome,
1770.

Oppenord, Gilles Marie. CEuvres de Gilles- Marie Oppenord ... con-
tenant differents fragments d 'architecture & d 'ornements a 1 'usage de
batiments sacres, publics et particuliers, graves par Gabriel Huquier
... Paris, A. Guerinet [1888].

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Paccioli, Luca. ... Divina prbportione, die lehre vom goldenen
schnitt. Nach der venezianischen ausgabe vom jahre 1509, neu
hrsg., ubers. und erlautert von Constantin Winterberg ... Wien, C.
Graeser, 1896.

Pembroke, Sidney Herbert, I4th earl of. Reproductions in facsimile
of drawings by the old masters in the collection of the Earl of Pem-
broke and Montgomery at Wilton house. With text, explanatory
and critical, by S. Arthur Strong. London, P. & D. Colnaghi & co.,
1900.

Penna, Agostino. Viaggio pittorico della Villa Adriana, composto di
vedute disegnate dal vero ed incise da Agostino Penna; con una
breve descrizione di ciascun monumento ... Roma, Tip. di P.
Aurelj, 1831-33. 2 v.

Portuondo y Barcelo, Bernardo. Lecciones de arquitectura explicadas
por el profesor de la Academia de ingenieros ... D. Bernardo Por-
tuondo y Barcelo ... Madrid, Imprenta del Memorial de ingenieros,

1877. 2 V.

Puerta Vizcaino, Juan de la. El real monasterio de San Lorenzo del
Escorial, por D. Juan de la Puerta Vizcaino. Pozuelo de Alarcon,
Establecimiento oleografico, 1876.

Ramiro, Erastene. ... Catalogue descriptif et analytique de rceuvre
grave de Felicien Rops. 2 ed. Bruxelles, E. Deman, 1893.

Ricci, Corrado. ... La Pinacoteca di Brera, con 263 incision!. Ber-
gamo, Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1907.

Ricci, Signora Elisa. Old Italian lace, by Elisa Ricci ... London,
W. Heinemann; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1913.
2 v.

Richardson, A. E. Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain
and Ireland during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, by A. E.
Richardson ... illustrated in a series of photographs, specially
taken by E. Dockree, & measured drawings of the more important
neo-classic buildings, with descriptive text. London, B. T. Bats-
ford, ltd. [1914].

Richter, Carl August. 70 mahlerische an- und aussichten der umge-
gend von Dresden in einem kreise von sechs bis acht meilen ; aufge-
nommen, gezeichnet und radirt von C. A. Richter . . . und A. Louis
Richter. 2. verb. aufl. ... 70 vues pittoresques des environs de
Dresde ... Dresde, Arnold [1822].

Richter, Ludwig i. e. Adrian Ludwig. Beschauliches und erbauliches;
ein familien-bilderbuch von Ludwig Richter in Dresden. Leipzig,
G. Wigand, 1851 [-55].

Rohault de Fleury, Georges. La Toscane au moyen age; architecture
civile et militaire, par Georges Rohault de Fleury ... Paris, V ve
A. Morel et cie, 1873. 2 v.

Rome (City} Museo di scultura antica. La collection Barracco public^
par F. Bruckmann d'apres la classification et avec le texte de Gio-
vanni Barracco et Wolfgang Helbig. Miinchen, F. Bruckmann,
1893. 2 v.

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Rose, James Anderson. A collection of engraved portraits; catalogued
and exhibited by James Anderson Rose, at the opening of the new
library and museum of the Corporation of London, November, 1872.
With a preface on engraving, and on the best mode of arranging a
collection of prints or engraved portraits. London, M. Ward and
co., 1874.

Rosner, Karl. Ornamentik des krevzgangs der Cisterzienser abtei
Zwetl. Nach der natur gezeichnet und autografirt von Karl Rosner
... Krems a. d. Donau, Druck v. M. Pammer, 1877.

Ryley, Arthur Beresford. Old paste, by A. Beresford Ryley ... Lon-
don, Methuen & co., ltd. [1913].

Sargent, John S. The work of John S. Sargent with an introductory
note by Mrs. Meynell. London, L. Heinemann, 1903.

Schongauer, Martin. ... Martin Schongauer, nachbildungen seiner
kupferstiche ; 72 tafeln in kupfertiefatzung, hrsg. von Max Lehrs.
Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1914.

Schubert-Soldern, Fortunat von. Das radierte werk des Anders Zorn,
bearb. von Fortunat von Schubert-Soldern. Mit einer original-
radierung und zwanzig lichtdrucktafeln. Dresden, E. Arnold (L.
W. Gutbier) 1905.

Selvatico, Pietro Estense. L'arte nella vita degli artisti; racconti
storici di Pfetro Selvatico ... Firenze, G. Barbera, 1870.

Serlio, Sebastiano. Tvtte 1'opere d'architettvra, et prospetiva, di
Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese, dove si mettono in disegno tvtte le
maniere di edificij, e si trattano di quelle cose, che sono piu neces-
sarie & sapere gli architetti. . . Di nuouo ristampate, & con ogni dili-
genza corrette. Venetia, G. de' Franceschi, 1619.

Spring Gardens sketching club, London. The Spring Gardens sketch
book ... London, Printed for the Spring Gardens sketching club by
Maclurc & Macdonald, lithographers [i867?-oo?|. 8 v. in 4.

The Spring Gardens .note-book ... London, The Spring Gar-
dens sketching club, 1874-79.

The Spring Gardens sketch-book. Topographical index and

Index of subjects. With a brief account of the origin and objects of
the club. London, The Spring Gardens sketching club, 1891.

Supino, Igino Benvenuto. ... Arte pisana. Firenze, Fratelli Alinari,
1904.

Thompson, Henry Yates. Illustrations from one hundred manuscripts
in the library of Henry Yates Thompson; consisting of eighty-two
plates illustrating sixteen mss. of English origin from the xiith to
the xvth centuries. London, Printed at the Chiswick press, 1914.

Tomkinson, Michael. A Japanese collection ... made by Michael
Tomkinson. London, G. Allen, 1898. 2 v.

Tours. Musee. Musee de Tours. Paris, J. E. Bulloz, [191-?] 66
mounted photographs in portfolio.

Valadier, Giuseppe. Raccolta delle piu insigni fabbriche di Roma
antica e sue adjacenze, misurate nuovamente e dichiarate dall' archi-
tetto Giuseppe Valadier, illustrate con osservazioni antiquarie da
Filippo Aurelio Visconti ed incise da Vincenzo Feoli ... Roma,
Torchi di M. de Romanis e figli, 1810-26.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, et archi-
tettori, scritte, & di nuouo ampliate da M. Giorgio Vasari pit. et
archit. aretino. Co' ritratti loro et con le nuoue vite dal 1550. insino
al 1567, con tauole copiosissime de' nomi, dell' opere, e de' luoghi
ou' elle sono. Fiorenza, Appresso i Givnti, 1568. 3 v.

[Venuti, Ridolfino.] Veteris Latii antiquitatum amplissima collectio
in qua praeter ea quae hactenus vulgata sunt vrbes, villae, templa,
balnea, pontes, piscinae, sepulcra, statuae, aut earum saltern rudera
et fragmenta describuntur et plusquam CXL. tabulis aeneis graphice
incisis delineata exhibentur ... Editio altera auctior. Romae, apvd
Venantium Monaldini, 1776. 2 v.

Vermiglioli, Giovanni Battista. Le sculture di Niccold e Giovanni da
Pisa e di Arnolfo Fiorentino, che ornano la Fontana maggiore di
Perugia, disegnate ed incise da Silvestro Massari e descritte da Gio.
Battista Vermiglioli. Perugia, Tip. Baduel presso V. Bartelli, 1834.

Visconti, Ennio Quirino. Iconographie romaine, par le chevalier
E. Q. Visconti ... Paris, Impr. de P. Didot I'ain6, 1817-26. 4 v.

Iconographie grecque, par le chevalier E. Q. Visconti ... Paris,

Impr. de P. Didot 1'aine, 1808. 2 v. in 3.

Weigel, Chr. Abbildung und beschreibung derer samtlichen Berg-
wercks Beamten und bedienten ... Niirnberg, Chr. Weigel, [1721].

Weissman^ Adriaan Willem. ed. Documents classes de 1'art dans les
Pays-Bas du x me au xix me siecle, recueillis par A. W. Weissman,
architecte, formant suite a 1'oeuvre de feu J. J. van Ysendyck.
Utrecht, A. Oosthoek [1914?].

Weyden, Roger van der. Le jugement dernier, par van der Weyden
a Ili6tel Dieu de Beaune. Paris, J. E/Bulloz [190-?].

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill. The lithographs by Whistler, illus-
trated by reproductions in photogravure and lithography, arranged
according to the Catalogue by Thomas R. Way; with additional sub-
jects not before recorded. New York, Kennedy & co., 1914.

Whitman, Alfred. The masters of mezzotint; the men and their work,
by Alfred Whitman ... London, G. Bell & sons, 1898.

Wierix, Jan. ... Les planches du Breviaire in-8, gravees par Jean
Wiericx; imprime sur les cuivres originaux. [Anvers, 1900].

Zanotti, Giovanni Pietro Cavazzoni. Le pitture di Pellegrino Tibaldi
e di Niccolo Abbati esistenti nell' Institute di Bologna, descritte et
illustrate da Giampietro Zanotti ... Venezia [G. Pasquali]. 1756.

PURCHASES: About one thousand books and periodicals relating to the

Simkhtrvitch col- . ^ .

lection social revolutionary movements in Kurope since the begin-

ning of the nineteenth century, collected by Dr. Vladimir G.
Simkhovitch, were acquired in December. The early Ger-
man leaders (to mention but a few of the more important
works in the collection) are represented by the rare "Gesell-
schaftliche Zustande der zivilisierten Welt" edited by

Report of the Librarian of Congress 53

Moses Hess; Karl Griin's "Neue Anekdota," 1840, and his
"Die soziale Bewegung in Frankreich und Belgium (1845) ";
Karl Peter Heinzen's "Die Opposition" (1846), "Politische
und unpolitische Fahrten" (1846), and his "Teutsche Revo-
lution" (1847); Georg Herwegh's "Bin und zwanzig Bogen"
(1843); Wilhelm Weitling's "Das Evangelium eines armen
Sunders" (1845) and Karl Marx's first work, "Die Heilige
Familie" written in collaboration with Friedrich Engels and
published in 1845.

Periodical literature, indispensable for the historical in-
vestigator, abounds. There are complete sets of "Le
peuple," "Le voix du peuple," "Die neue Zeit," edited by
Karl Kautsky, "Die sozialistiche Monatshefte" and many
Russian anarchist and terrorist publications.

Especially interesting is a complete file of the little satiric
Russian paper called "Pulemet" (The Machine Gun) in the
first issue of which was "printed a copy of the Tsar's mani-
festo with the impression of a bloody hand stamped upon it,
and the superscription, ' Signed and Sealed.' This was seized
as an insult to the dynasty. The editor was imprisoned,
the price of the cartoon went up from five farthings to almost
as many pounds, and, when the paper appeared again, its
fame was established." (Nevinson's "Dawn in Russia,"
1906).

The Annual Report for 1913 notes the acquisition of source

Schuller co'.lec-

material for the native languages of Spanish America, col- tion
lected by Dr. Rudolph R. Schuller. Upon his return from
South America last fall the results of his later collecting
along the same general lines, 118 manuscripts and 119
printed books and pamphlets, were also acquired. The
imprints include the following items now difficult of acqui-
sition through ordinary trade channels:

Alemany, Agustin. Castellano-piro ; vocabulario de bolsillo ... Lima,

Tip. del Colegio apost61ico de P. F. del Peru, 1906.
Castellano-shipibo; vocabulario de bolsillo ... Lima, Tip. del

Colegio apost61ico de P. F. del Peru, 1906.

Includes Elementos de gramatica, por el mismo autor,=p. 51-64.

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Armentia, Nicolas. ... Diccionario de la lengua pacaguara (-pano)
(Bolivia). Rio de Janeiro, 1913.

Beltran, Pedro. Diario del viaje hecho el afio de 1834 para reconocer
los rios Ucayali y Pachitea ... Arequipa, Imprenta del gobierno por
P. Benavides, 1840.

Capistrano de Abreu, Joao. O Brazil no secolo xvi. Estudios de
Capistrano de Abreu. I. A armada de D. Ntino Manuel. Rio de
Janeiro, Typ. da Gazeta de noticias, 1880.

Ratxa huni kui a lingua do Caxinaua do rio Mora. [Rio de
Janeiro, 1910].

(One of five or six copies that escaped the fire of the Imprensa
nacional at Rio de Janeiro, September 1910.)

Catholic church. Catechisms. ... Compendio de la doctrina cristiana
en qichua dialecto de Junin, por los rr. pp. Redentoristas ... 7. ed.
Lima, Libreria e imprenta Gil, 1900.

... Compendio de la doctrina cristiana en qquechua general 6

imperial. Por el p. Lobato ... 12 ed. ... Lima, Impr. y libreria
de San Pedro, 1905.

Feyjoo [de Sosa,] Miguel. Relacion descriptiva de la ciudad, y pro-
vincia de Truxillo del Peru, con noticias exactas de su estado poli-
tico ... En Madrid, En la imprenta de Real i supremo consejo de
las Indias ... afio de 1763. [Trujillo, Imp. R. Chies, 1902].

Gramatica elemental de la lengua keshua en 20 lecciones. Lima, Tip.
del Colegio de propaganda fide del Peru, 1905.

Hengvart, Eugenio. Gramatica de la lengua quichua adaptada al
dialecto ayacuchano ... Lima, Imp. del Colegio de huerfanos, 1907.

Heriarte, Mauricio de. Descripcao do estado do Maranhao, Para,
Corupa e Rio das Amazonas. Feita por Mauricio de Heriarte . . . que
foi, pelo governador D. Pedro de Mello. no anno de 1662. Por
mandado do governador-geral Diogo Vaz de Sequeira. Dada a luz
por la. vez. Vienna d 'Austria, Impr. de filho de C. Gerold, 1874.

Jesuits. Letters from missions (South America). ... Cartas avulsas
(1550-1568) Rio de Janeiro, Imprensa nacional, 1887. (Cartas
jesuiticas, in-iv.)

Mamiani della Rovere, Lodovico Vincenzo. Arte de grammatica da
lingua Brazilica da nacao Kiriri ... 2. ed. ... Rio de Janeiro, Typ.
central de Brown & Evaristo, 1877.

Metodo practice para aprender la lengua guarani, por F. M. 2. ed.
Asuncion, Jordan & Villaamil, 1907.

Monteiro, Tobias do Rego. Do Rio ao Parana ... Rio de Janeiro [Typ.,
do Jornal do commercio de Rodrigues & c.] 1903.

Navarro, Manuel. Vocabulario castellano-quechua-pano con sus
respectivas gramaticas quechua y pana ... Lima, Imprenta del
estado, 1903.

Pacheco Cruz, Santiago. Compendio del "idioma yucateco," dedi-
cado a las escuelas rurales del estado ... Merida, Yucatan, 1912.

[Polly, Alfredo]. Os Boruns. Recordacoes selvajens. Rio de Ja-
neiro, Papelaria Mendes, 1908.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 55

Romaguera da Cunha Corra, Jose. Vocabulario sul rio-grandense ...

Pelotas [etc.] Echenique & Irmao, 1898.
Romero Fuentes, Luis C. La lengua maya al alcance de todos. Manual

que contiene 34 lecciones compuestas de las frases mas usuales,

presentadas con un metodo sencillo para facilitar su aprendizaje.

... Merida, Yucatan, G. Fernandez, 1910.
Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio. Arte de la lengua guarani, 6 mas bien

tupi, por el P. Antonio Ruiz de Montoya ... Nueva ed.: mas cor. y

esmerada que la primera, y con las voces indias en tipo diferente.

Viena, Faesy y Frick; [etc., etc.] 1876.
Salesians. Brazil. Elementos de grammatica e diccionario da lingua

dos Bororos-Coroados de Matto-Grosso ... Cuiaba, Escolas profis-

sionaes salesianas, 1908.

Of kindred interest is a considerable group of books and
manuscripts, originals and photographic reproductions (60
pieces), relating to Mexico, Central America, and the Maya
Indians of Yucatan, acquired in May from the library of
Paul Wilkinson of Mexico City. Among the printed books
are:

Ancona, Eligio. Historia de Yucatan, desde la epoca mas remota

hasta nuestros dias. ist ed. Merida, 1878-1905. 5 v.

Los Martires del Anahuac. Mexico, 1870.
Castillo, Geronimo. Diccionario historico, biografico y monumental

de Yucatan. Merida, Castillo y Companio, 1866.
Coronel, P. Fr. Juan. Discursos predicables, con otras diversas

materias espirituales, con la Doctrina Cristiana, y los articulos de

la Fe, recopilados en lengua Yucateca y enmendados. Mexico,

Imprenta de Diego Garrido, 1620.
Remesal, Antonio de. Historia de la Provincia de S. Vincente de

Chyapa y Guatemala de la Orden de Sancto Domingo. Madrid, por

Francisco de Engulo, 1619.

In the constant search for desirable printed material for PURCHASES:

History

the general collections (excluding now those subjects in
charge of distinct divisions of the Library Law, Music,
Fine Arts, etc.), no field receives more systematic attention
than history and the auxiliary sciences, particularly Ameri-
can history and genealogy; and in no other field are more
selections made or more items acquired. But because this
historical field has long been gleaned and because its current
yield is generally not costly, the results of this endeavor

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are as a rule significant only in the aggregate and the
aggregate is not easily exhibited. But among the more
important acquisitions of this year may be noted these:

Alexander, James. The complaint of James Alexander and William
Smith to the committee of the General assembly of the Colony of
New York. New York, Zenger, 1735.

Benavides, Alonso de. Memorial qve fray Ivan de Santander de la
orden de San Francisco, comissario general de Indias, presenta a la
Magestad catolica del rey Don Felipe Ovarto nuestro senor. Hecho
por el padre fray Alonso de Benauides comissario del Santo Oficio,
y custodio que ha sido de las prouincias, y conuersiones del Nueuo-
Mexico. En Madrid, en la Imprenta real, ano 1630.

Cahier, Charles. Melanges d'archeologie, d'histoire et de litterature
... Paris, Poussielgue-Rusand, 1847-56.

Hennepin, Louis. Voyage curieux qui contient une Nouvelle decou-
verte d'un tres-grand pays situe dans I'Amerique, entre le Nouveau
Mexique et la mer Glaciale ... La Haye, chez Jean Kitto, Marchand
Libraire, 1704.

Howard, Henry. Memorials of the Howard family. Lond. 1834-41.

Le Liber pontificalis; texte, introduction et commentaire par 1'abbe
Duchesne. Paris, E. Thorin, 1886-92. 2 v.

Libros de antano nuevamente dados a luz por varies oficionados.
Madrid, Libreria de los bibliofilos, 1898. 15 v.

Lopez de Cogolludo, Diego. Historia de Yucatan escrita en el siglo
xvn. Tercera edicion. Merida, Manuel AldanaRivas, 1867-68. 2V.

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van. Voyagie, ofte Schip-vaert, van Ian
Hvyghen van Linschoten, van by Noorden om langes Noorvvegen
de Noortcaep, Laplant, Vinlant, Ruslandt, de VVitte Zee, de Custen
van Candenoes, Svvetenoes, Pitzora, &c. door de Strate ofte Engte
van Nassau tot voorby de Revier Oby ... Anno 1594. en 1595.
Ghedruct tot Franeker. By Gerard Ketel [1601]

Anno 1594, ende 1595. t'Amsterdam, By I. E. Clop-
penburg, 1624.

Madiou, Thomas, flls. Histoire d 'Haiti, par Thomas Madiou fils ...
Port-au-Prince, J. Courtois, 1847. 3 v.

Moody, James. Lieut. James Moody 's narrative of his exertions and
sufferings in the cause of government, since the year 1776. London.
Printed in the year 1782.

Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst erganzenden actenstiicken
... hrsg. durch das K. Preussische historische institut in Rom und
die K. Preussische archiv-verwaltung. Gotha, F. A. Perthes,
1892-1913.

Pointis, Jean Bernard Louis Desjean, baron de. An account of the
taking of Carthagena by the French, in the year 1697. Containing
all the particulars of that expedition from their first setting out to their
return into Brest. London, For Sam. Buckley, 1698.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 57

Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray genealogy, being a genealogical
record and history of the descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass.,
and also including sketches of other Gray families, by M. D. Ray-
mond. Tarrytown, N. Y., 1887.

Retratos de los espanoles ilustres con un epitome de sus de sus vidas.
Madrid, Imprenta real, 1791.

Rocha, Diego Andres. Tratado unico y singular del origen de los Indios
occidentales del Peru, Mexico, Santa Fe y Chile ... [Lima, En la
imprenta de Manuel de los Olivos, por. Joseph de Contreras, 1681].

Shortt, Adam. ed. Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian
people and their institutions, by one hundred associates. Adam
Shortt, Arthur G. Doughty, general editors. [Archives ed.] Toronto,
Glasgow, Brook and company; [etc., etc.] 1914. 22 v. and index.

Our collection of English drama, already considerable, was PURCHASES:

English drama

increased by more than 250 plays, chiefly seventeenth and
eighteenth century editions not previously represented on
our shelves. The earlier and more important items include
a copy of Robert Garnier's "Tragedie of Antonie. Doone
into English by the Countess of Pembroke," London, 1585,
bound in full green morocco by Riviere; Philip Massinger's
"Duke of Millaine," 1623 and his " Tragedy of Nero," 1635;
"A pleasant comedie of Fair Em, the miller's daughter of
Manchester: with the love of William the conqueror "-
ist edition. London, 1631; Beaumont and Fletcher's
"Knight of the burning pestle" 1635; Christopher Mar-
lowe's "Lust's dominion, or, The lascivious queen,"i657;
John Tatham's " London's Glory, represented by Time,
Truth and Fame," 1660; "The heroick lover" by George
Cartwright, 1661; "Love for money: or, The boarding
school. A comedy," by Thomas D'Urfey; and "The
Pilgrim, a comedy. Written originally by Mr. Fletcher and
now very much altered with ... a prologue, epilogue, dialogue
and masque, written by the late Mr. Dryden just before his
death," 1700.

Among first editions of notable books acquired are : PURCHASES:

Miscellaneous

An untrimmed copy of Goethe 's ' ' Faust, ' 1 790, with signatures F-L in
the corrected form (without the repetition on p. 145 of the last three lines
on p. 144, etc.) corresponding in that respect to Seuffert's issue Bb, or
Deneke's S 2 . It differs in having one signature. D, with the mark

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Goethe's W. 7. B., and in the quality of the paper, which is heavier and
of a pronounced creamy tint, different from that of the Schriften and
of the separate issue of the fragment, cf. Seuffert's introd. to his reprint,
1882, and Deneke in Zs. fiir bucherfreunde, n. f. i, 1909, p. 171-173.

A rare piece of early American poetry, " The Patriot muse ; or, Poems
on some of the principal events of the late war ... by an American
gentleman ... [Benjamin Young Prime]. London, John Bird, 1764.
The work is not a mere rarity but is especially interesting for its poetical
pictures of episodes in American history "General Braddock's
defeat", "Surrender of Fort William Henry", "Ode on the surrender
of Louisbourg," etc.

A desirable copy of William Heath's "The life of a soldier: a narra-
tive and descriptive poem", London, 1823, with a duplicate set of the
author's own illustrations, finely colored.

The rare first edition of Dr. Isaac Watts' " Hymns and spiritual songs
in 3 books". London, 1707. Peter Cunningham, editor of the Life
of Watts (Johnson's "Lives of the poets") stated that "a first edition
of his Hymns, 1707, is rarer than a first edition of Bunyan's ' Pilgrim's
Progress'". Few collectors have ever succeeded in finding any of
the early impressions.

A volume of high rank in the annals of American book production
is the Hoe copy (one of four printed on vellum by Theodore L. De
Vinne) of "Sakoontala; or, The lost ring. An Indian drama. Trans-
lated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa by
Monier Williams". New York, 1888.

William Carew Hazlitt's interesting collection of pam-
phlets relating to Early English literature, 503 pamphlets
bound in 60 volumes, was purchased for a modest sum in
January.

To the Bertram Dobell collection of privately printed
books were added in April 80 volumes and 35 pamphlets,
gathered by the collector's sons and successors.

Transfers The receipts by transfer from governmental libraries in

the District of Columbia, aggregating 31,060 volumes and
pamphlets, 35,050 periodical numbers and 194 maps and
charts, while not equal to last year's total are still much
above the average.

Report of the Librarian of Congress
The accessions from this source included:

Volumes

Pam-
phlets

Numbers

Maps

The White House

2c6

4O2

I 220

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives . .

Department of State

2, 114.

267

000

Department of the Treasury

1 06

Bureau of the Mint

184

Department of War :
Army War College

eje

Bureau of Insular Affairs ....
U. S. Engineer School

2,574

Post Office Department

Department of the Navy

I4.t

AOC

Department of the Interior

General Land Office

Patent Office

8, 003

J, 6l2

118

Pension Bureau

Bureau of Education

07O

3O7

I, O38

Geological Survey . .

1 80

271

=;, 1:28

Reclamation Service

Bureau of Mines

Department of Agriculture

I, CO7

I, 2 ?4

I, 047

Weather Bureau

2QC

167

I, -22<

Bureau of Plant Industry

Department of Commerce

024

4O4

4, 54-?

Bureau of the Census

I. 632

I* IO7

Bureau of Corporations

Bureau of Foreign and Do-
mestic Commerce

407

4, C4i

Bureau of Standards

Bureau of Fisheries

<;6

182

Coast and Geodetic Survey. . .

1 80

Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics

2OS

soo

800

Smithsonian Institution

I, 606

4,087

Interstate Commerce Commission

I. Ill

677

1. 6liC

U. S. Civil Service Commission

2OI

2?4

60 Report of the Librarian of Congress

The receipts from exchanges with nongovernmental
libraries are considerably in excess of any recent year's
record.
s- To the list of active participants in the distribution of

fers

surplus copyright deposits there were added during the year
the libraries of the Bureau of Fisheries, the Patent Office,
the Bureau of the Census, the Office of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, the Department of Commerce, the
Hygienic Laboratory, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The number of volumes transferred to the governmental
libraries this year totaled 8,722, as against 5,436 transferred
during the previous fiscal year, an increase of 3,286 volumes.
The volumes selected by the beneficiary libraries (not in-
cluded in any of the foregoing statistical statements because
they had never been incorporated in the permanent collec-
tions of the Library of Congress) numbered as follows:

District of Columbia Public Library 5, 054

U. S. Soldiers' Home 764

Bureau of Education 546

Federal Trade Commission (Bureau of Corporations) 467

U. S. Engineer School 426

Department of Commerce 357

Surgeon General's Office 323

Department of Agriculture 307

Hygienic Laboratory 137

Bureau of Standards 89

Bureau of Mines 89

Patent Office 62

Pension Bureau 40

Interstate Commerce Commission 18

Bureau of Fisheries 15

Commissioner of Internal Revenue 13

Bureau of the Census n

Navy Department 2

Geological Survey i

Bureau of Labor Statistics i

Report of the Librarian of Congress 61

DIVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS
(From the report of the Chief, Dr. Hunt)

Ten years ago in 1905 the Librarian's Annual report
outlined the plan which was then begun, to obtain trans-
scripts from foreign archives of documents pertaining to
the history of the United States during the colonial period.
In that year the Library acquired the Stevens Catalogue
Index of Manuscripts in the Archives of England, France,
Holland, and Spain relating to America, 1763-1783, \\hich
was then, as the compiler, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, truly
described it, ' 'the sole key to the American Revolutionary
documents in European archives." At the same time the
Library acquired the transcripts which had been made under
Mr. Stevens's direction, from the archives of England and
France, of documents relating to the Peace of 1783, between
the United States and Great Britain. Thus was formally
begun an enterprise which had been the hope of historical
scholars from the time that our national history began to
be studied. The papers of Peter Force, one of the earliest
and most industrious of the collectors and compilers of
American historical material, which the Library recently
acquired, show that a part of his plan for the American
Archives was to obtain transcripts of certain documents in
the British archives, and that in 1834, at his instance, the
American Legation at London applied to the British govern-
ment for permission to copy the documents, a list of which Mr.
Force had sent to the legation. The request was refused by
the British government, and Mr. Force abandoned his project.
In 1876, there being a widespread interest in the events
of which that year was the centennial anniversary, some
efforts were made to obtain copies of American Revolu-
tionary documents in Europe, but the results were meager.
In 1881 Mr. Stevens endeavored to obtain official patronage
of the plan, of which his index was a part. Official permis-

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sion to make the copies was given by the British govern-
ment, and an officer of the Department of State made a
survey of the field. Obviously it was a very large field,
and the necessary funds to work it were not provided.
Moreover, there did not exist under the Government at that
time the machinery for the continuous superintendence of
an historical task which must in the nature of things require
many years to complete. The new Library of Congress
provided such machinery; and, by steady application, the
undertaking, which appeared to be so formidable, has been
accomplished without extravagant expenditure. It is
gratifying, too, to record the cooperation in this project of
the Council of the American Historical Association, with
which the Library conferred when the undertaking was
begun, and of several scholars whose specialty was American
Colonial history, and of the Department of Historical
Research of the Carnegie Institution. Indeed, Prof.
Charles M. Andrews, now of Yale University, who compiled,
partly in conjunction with Miss Frances G. Davenport,
several guides to the English archives for the Carnegie
Institution, kindly directed a great part of the copying for
the Library. The copying was done by Messrs. B. F.
Stevens & Brown, the firm which had been founded by
Mr. B. F. Stevens. The transcripts from British archives
now number about 175,000 folios.

What the Library has done with reference to the British
archives it proposes to do with reference to the archives of
the other countries to which part of our domain once be-
longed. In the order of their importance, from the his-
torical point of view, these are France, Spain, Mexico, and
Russia. The Russian archives contain material relating
to Alaska, and copies of some of this have already been ob-
tained. Systematic and comprehensive copying must be
postponed to a more propitious time. The Library has
obtained a considerable body of transcripts of the archives

Report of the Librarian of Congress 63

of the other countries. The copying in France was under
the immediate supervision of Mr. Waldo G. Leland, of the
Carnegie Institution; and that in Spain is under Mr. W. E.
Dunn, a professor in the University of Texas. Mr. Iceland's
return to this country did not discontinue the work in Paris,
however, and it has gone on satisfactorily, if not rapidly.
In Spain Mr. Dunn is industriously employed in the Archives
of the Indies at Seville. It is designed to finish the work
there before going to Simancas and Madrid. In this enter-
prise the Library is cooperating successfully with the
University of California and the University of Texas, the
object being to have three main depositories of material
relating to the Spanish colonies in America. The copying
in Mexico has been halted by the disturbed conditions in
that country, but will be resumed as soon as possible.

In the course of the next year I hope to be able to pre-
sent a comprehensive plan of cooperation between this gov-
ernment and that of Canada for transcribing together and
exchanging copies of material of historical interest to both
countries.

It is gratifying to note that in all foreign countries to
which application has been made for permission to copy
from the archives, free permission has been given, and every
facility afforded. Generally speaking, too, the facilities are
good. They are, in fact, in contrast to those of our own
national archives, which are scattered, often inaccessible,
and ill-arranged, and without good facilities for copying.
It is proper that the Library should again record the
earnest hope it has so often expressed, that Congress
will provide for the concentration and preservation of our
archive material, so that the reproach of present deplorable
conditions may be removed.

In February the last volume of the calendar of correspond- Calendar of

Wathinglon cor-

ence of George Washington, prepared by Mr. John C. Fitz-
patrick, Chief Assistant in the Division, was published, being

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No. 2 of the calendars of the Washington manuscripts, a
complement to Calendar No. i, published in 1906. No. i
covered the correspondence of General Washington with the
Continental Congress, and No. 2 covers the correspondence
with the officers. It is in four volumes, one of which is the
Index. Thus the combined calendars of the Washington
manuscripts are in five volumes. Many expressions of ap-
preciation of the excellence of the calendar and of its useful-
ness to historical scholars have reached the Library. From
the beginning of the task until its completion, 12 years
elapsed, the greater part of Mr. Fitzpatrick's time during
that period being devoted to it. Perhaps a calendar of an-
other group of the Washington papers may be undertaken
at. some future time. If so, the next group will be the civil
correspondence of General Washington, with governors of
states and other officials, during the Revolution a collec-
tion much smaller in volume than either of those already
dealt with.

In the direction of rendering the collections more acces-
sible to those who are not in a position to consult them per-
sonally, besides the handbook, which was described in the
report of last year, lists of several collections have been com-
pleted, and it is hoped will be printed. These lists do not
state the contents of documents, but they give the names of
the writers and recipients and the dates of communications.
They are not, of course, so useful as calendars, but it may
well be that a large number of printed lists would be more
useful generally than a small number of calendars.
MANUSCRIPT: TO several of the donors the Library has had occasion to

Gifts

record its thanks on previous occasions; they are, in fact,
continuous in their benefactions. Mrs. James H. Lyons,
the great granddaughter of Patrick Henry; Dr. Elizabeth
Comstock and Mrs. Frederick J. Burlingame, the nieces of
Brigadier General Cyrus B. Comstock, U. S. A. ; Hon. George
B. McClellan, son of Major General George B. McClellan,

Report of the Librarian of Congress 65

U. S. A.; P. Lee Phillips, Esq., son of Hon. Philip Phillips;

and Mrs. Orlando M. Poe, widow of Brigadier General Or-

lando M. Poe, U. S. A., have contributed again to the col-
lections which they had already enriched. In the report for
1914, the death of Mr. Edgar T. Welles, the son of Gideon
Welles, was noticed, but his daughter, Miss Alice Welles,
has continued to make the deposits which he began.

Mrs. Lyons's addition to the Patrick Henry papers was Umry papers
the page in the Henry Family Bible, which contains the
entries, by Patrick Henry, of his marriage and the birth of
each of his children. She also gave the Library, from the
papers of her father, William Wirt Henry, some 50 manu-
scripts, which had been collected by William Wirt, when he
was writing his Life of Patrick Henry. They embody cor-
respondence with personal acquaintances of Patrick Henry,
giving facts concerning his life.

Dr. Elizabeth Comstock and Mrs. Burlingame added to Comstock papers
the group of papers of General Comstock general orders of
the Army of the Potomac and letters and orders to him,
1862-1891.

Hon. George B. McClellan sent 32 volumes more of Mccuum pa-
pen
General McClellan's papers, to join the great McClellan

collection.

Mr. P. Lee Phillips gave the Library 19 volumes of papers Phiiups papers
of his father, Hon. Philip Phillips, and of his brother,
William Hallett Phillips. The annual report for 1910
announced the acquisition of Mr. Philip Phillips's copy of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and the amendment repealing
the Missouri Compromise, which Mr. Phillips wrote. His
correspondence contains much information on this and
other measures of the period. William Hallett Phillips,
his son, was a lawyer of high repute in Washington, espe-
cially concerned in international law and practice before
the Supreme Court. In 1897 he was appointed by
Secretary Richard Olney to revise Wharton's Digest of

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International Law, but died before he had done more

than enter upon the preliminaries of his work. He was

also interested in the Yellowstone National Park, and was
one of the chief instrumentalities in obtaining that won-
derland as a national pleasure ground. His correspondence
relates to his activities in these and kindred fields.
papers Mrs. Poe has given the Library a small group of papers

of her husband, Orlando Metcalf Poe. They include a rare
autographic item a document signed by Generals Grant
and Sherman and several confidential, intimate letters
of General Sherman to General Poe. One of these is so
-characteristic that it should be quoted:

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,

Washington, D. C., October jo, 1883.

Colonel O. M. POE, A. D. C.,

Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Army,

MY DEAR FRIEND: By reason of circumstances long
since revealed, the little group of officers which has
daily gathered at these Head Quarters will soon give
place to others, and we will scatter, you to your post
of duty at Detroit, and I to my home at Saint Louis.

The relation between a General and his personal
staff is too intimate, too sacred to be treated in General
Orders. So, according to a habit long since formed,
I will address you thus, rather than pay a fulsome
compliment for publication.

I construe your personal and official service near my
person to have begun in the spring of 1864 at Nash-
ville, and that it will not cease till February 8, 1884,
so that you will have been with me twenty years,
and twenty most eventful years. In the beginning,
we were in the throes of a Great Civil War, with vast
armies in motion, needing guidance and maintainence,
wherein your well-stored mind and sound judgment
aided me more than you ever can know. We gradually
but surely swept our enemies out of existence, and in
1865 rode into this Capital of Washington to celebrate
a Grand Victory and what was better a Peace founded

Report of the Librarian of Congress 67

on principles of Truth as lasting as time. Most of our
comrades went to their homes, but our work was not
yet done. Out of the wrecks of the vast armies had to
be created smaller ones adapted to the new conditions
of facts, and these had to be guided and directed so as
to prepare the way for the inevitable result, subduing
the Indian and making possible the settlement of the
Vast Region west of the Missouri, to cover and protect
the Great Railways which now connect the Atlantic
with the Pacific and bring those most valuable com-
munities into more intimate relations with the Remain-
der of Our Country. This, too, has been done in our
day, and for your most valuable assistance in this con-
nection I am greatly indebted to you. To deal in more
particulars would swell this letter to an uncomfortable
length, and I will only add that throughout, our rela-
tions have been so confident that either could anticipate
the action of the other without waiting for the
conclusion.

My career is now at an end, but there is no reason why
you should not go on to the highest round of the ladder
in Our Profession. I know your partiality to your own
Special Branch, but you have had experience in all,
and as to command men in Battle is regarded by the
world as the Highest Branch of the Military Art, I
would have you bear that in mind should the occasion
arise in your life.

Wishing you and yours all possible honor and
happiness, I am

Truly and Sincerely
Your Friend,

W. T. SHERMAN

General.

Miss Alice Welles's deposit is the remainder of the papers WMes
of Gideon Welles, and the whole of the manuscript diary.
While the greater part of the diary has been printed, some
of it yet remains only in the manuscript form.

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Other notable gifts are:

Plumb papers From Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of Washington the biog-
rapher of Susan B. Anthony the papers of Edward Lee
Plumb. In 1866 Mr. Plumb was Secretary of Legation in
Mexico; later he was Consul General at Havana; then he
was agent in Mexico for the Mexican International Railroad.
Among the important documents is a commonplace book,
with extracts from books and articles on Mexican affairs,
"Considerations on the establishment of steam communica-
tion on the West Coast," and "Notes on cotton manufac-
tures in Mexico." There is a volume of newspaper clippings
on the contract of the Mexican international railway with
the Mexican Government. There are a few papers of the
Mexican War period, and a long letter from A. H. Plumb
on the independence of the Pacific territories dated April 29,
1855. Beginning in 1861 are many letters of E. L. Plumb
on Mexican affairs. In that year is a group of letters on
, the rupture between England, France, and Mexico. After
the Civil War, in 1867, Plumb wrote interesting letters, from
New Orleans, on political subjects to Charles Sumner. On
the Mexican international railway his letters are to J. San-
ford Barnes, D. P. Barhydt, and Thomas W. Pearsall,
officers of the railway. There is much, however, on the
Tehuantepec canal and railway; also to Secretary Hamilton
Fish on events in Mexico in 1876 and 1877 and the policy of
the United States toward the insurrection.

Hamilton j) r Allan McLane Hamilton, Great Barrington, Massa-

papers

chusetts, the great grandson of Alexander Hamilton, has
given the Library the written draft of a legal argument of
Alexander Hamilton in the case of Rutgers -v. Waddington,

1783-
Mason papers M r f F. Mason, Point of Rocks, Maryland, has deposited

with the Library, the title still to remain in the owner, the
papers of his ancestor, George Mason, of Gunston Hall.
They are letters to and from him and notes of some of his

Report of the Librarian of Congress 69

speeches in the Constitutional Convention. Although they
are not many, they are the most important group of Mason
papers extant. Among them is a draft of the report of the
Committee of Detail, in the writing of Edmund Randolph,
with a few marginal notes by John Rutledge, one of the most
interesting documents in existence pertaining to the making
of the Constitution.

Another notable deposit is that by Mrs. Michael D. Harter, " Toum pa ^ s
of Mansfield, Ohio, of the papers of Silas Brown, Jr., 1805-
1817. He was a pioneer, who went from New Hampshire
to Albany, Onondaga, Pittsburgh, Marietta, Natchez. At
Marietta he had some experiences with Blennerhasset. His
letters give interesting accounts of the country and people
and his own adventures.

Mrs. John Boyd Thacher has deposited the autograph Thacker auto-
graph collection

collection of royal documents, which her husband, the
late John Boyd Thacher, collected. Probably this is
the most notable collection of foreign autographic docu-
ments in the country. It includes letters from royalty in
each country of Europe. The English group starts with an
official document signed by Henry v, in 1480, and there are
letters also from Richard in, Henry vni, Mary Queen of
Scots, Elizabeth, Charles i, Cromwell, Charles n, Anne,
George in, and others. The oldest royal document is signed
by Charles v, King of France, in 1374. The Napoleonic
group has two letters signed by Napoleon and letters from
his father, Carlo Bonaparte, his mother, Letitia Bonaparte,
Josephine, Marie Louise, Napoleon n ("I/Aiglon"), and
Napoleon in. Besides, there are letters from Frederick the
Great, William iv, Prince of Orange, Peter the Great, and
Catharine of Russia. As the collection is now arranged,
there are two portfolios of documents of the royal families
of England, two of the royal families of France, one of the
royal families of Germany, one of the House of Orange, one
of royal families of Russia, Poland, and the East, one of the

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royal families of Spain and Sweden, one of Italian nobles,
one of Italian clerics, authors, patriots, warriors, and
sailors, one of the Popes, one of Napoleon, one of the Napo-
leonic period, and one of miscellaneous documents. The
collection comprises some 600 manuscript documents, in
broadsides and printed documents, and 578 photographs
and drawings.
West Florida j}y transfer from the General Land Office, Department

archives

of the Interior, certain archives of West Florida were added
to the Florida papers already in the Division. The new
papers are in seven volumes, being a portion of the official
records of the colony while under British control. There
are contemporary attested copies of various commissions
and instructions of Governor George Johnstone and a
full record of royal sign manuals, patents, commissions, and
other papers passed under the broad seal of the province,
1764-1781. There are two volumes of journals of the
Assembly, 1766-1769, and two of the Executive Council
Minutes, 1769-1772.

ECONOMIC PA- Additions to the material for economic history, which
jon^s papers the Library is accumulating, have been made by the acces-
sion of several account books, accounts, and collections of
correspondence. Chronologically, they extend from 1685
to 1861, and geographically, from Connecticut to Virginia.
The most important are the Jones papers, a large collection
of family papers, given to the Library by Judge Lewis H.
Jones, of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912. They were then
in such bad condition (having been crumpled up and thrust
into cloth bags) that it was out of the question to use them.
In the last year they have been flattened out and arranged
chronologically. They are an interesting and valuable mass
of mercantile and family correspondence, dating. as far back
as 1694. They touch the tobacco trade and prices in
England; family correspondence with Williamsburg, Vir-

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ginia; invoices of imports, with prices, slave purchases, and
the cost of family supplies.

Among the diaries acquired, is that of Edmund Ruffin, in Ru & n d ' ar y
25 volumes, 1856-1865. He was a man of a high order of
talent, a successful scientific farmer on a large scale, an
author especially on agricultural subjects a slaveholder,
and a firm believer in the economic system of the South.
He was an intense believer in state rights, and was selected
to fire the first gun against Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 (he
being then a member of a South Carolina regiment). He
kept a voluminous diary during the whole period of the
Civil War, giving the march of events and his own views
upon them, from day to day. It presents faithfully his
extreme point of view and is a document of peculiar value.
At the close of the War, on June 18, 1865, being then 71
years of age, poor, and infirm in health, and not wishing to
live under the government which had conquered his state,
he committed suicide. The last entry in his diary was made
on the day of this tragic event.

The vehement partisanship of Ruffin's diary finds a foil Mora* diary
in the pacific record kept by Benjamin Moran, from 1851
to 1875, being 44 volumes in all, covering the whole period
of his long and useful diplomatic service. It is gratifying
to. record that it was Mr. Worthington C. Ford, formerly the
Chief of this Division, whose interest in its mission has not
terminated with a change in the field of his historical
activity, who discovered the diary, and put the Library in
the way of acquiring it. Benjamin Moran began his con-
nection with the American Legation at London in 1851,
when James Buchanan was our Minister, and it extended to
1874. During that time he served under Buchanan, George
M. Dallas, Charles Francis Adams, John Lothrop Motley,
Reverdy Johnson, and General Schenck. His diary records
Legation business from day to day, and gives interesting

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side lights and, occasionally, important information upon dip-
lomatic questions between England and the United States.
He draws pen pictures of the Ministers, British officials, and
visiting Americans. He chronicles industriously the cur-
rent Legation gossip and social life. In 1874, as a reward for
his long service at the Legation in London, Moran was sent
as Minister to Portugal, where he resided till 1882. He died
in London in 1886. Undoubtedly, "Moran's Diary," being
now accessible to historical writers, will become one of the
constantly quoted records.

rMaie paper* The purchases include " Papers relating to y? Province of
Carolina, principally whilst John Archdale, Esq., was Gov-
ernour & Commander in Chief of y? Province, Anno 1694,
1695, &c., with a Draught of y? Town, Mapps of y? Forts,
Rivers, Coasts, &c."

"Bought at M? Granger's Auction, Jan. 25, 1732-3. Vid.
y? Catalogue in y? iO9 th Vol. of 8 VO pamphlets, in y? remaining
part of y? Manuscripts of y? late M^ Granger, pag. 3, Number
34, in folio."

The volume opens with "The Humble Address of the Right
Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament
Assembled. Presented to Her Majesty on Wednesday, the
Third Day of March, 1705, Relating to the Province of Caro-
lina, and Petition therein mentioned. With Her Majesties
Most Gracious Answer Thereunto. London, Printed by
Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, de-
ceas'd; Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,
1705", being Archdale's copy, with an autograph letter of
Mr. Ellison.

There is, besides, an undated draft, by Archdale, of the
measures proposed by him in North Carolina when he was
governor; a copy, dated December 20, 1695, of Joseph
Blakie's commission as deputy governor, from Archdale; a
general plan for regulating the Indian trade; copy of Arch-
dale's speech to the North Carolina legislature; a manuscript

Report of the Librarian of Congress 73

map of Charleston; one of Charleston Harbor; one of the
coast of North Carolina; the Earl of Craven's appointment of
John Archdale as his Deputy, August 23, 1695; a petition to
Parliament to allow naturalization of Germans in North Caro-
lina, and other papers of equal interest. There are in all 154
documents in this group.

Archdale was a Quaker, and one of the popular colonial
governors. He exempted Quakers from militia duty. He
won the friendship of the Indians. He published, in 1707, A
New Description of the Fertile and Pleasant Province of
Carolina. His papers are a contribution of the highest value
to the history of that colony.

The papers of Peter Force, which the Library acquired in For
June relate to his career as one of the most indefatigable
collectors of Americana our country has ever seen. In 1867,
his library was bought by the Government, and his large
collection of American transcripts, which constituted a part
of it, is now an important group in the Manuscript Division's
collection. A considerable number of original manuscripts,
which he collected, came to the Library at that time. His
gigantic scheme of documentary publication extended over
twenty years from 1833 to 1853 when it was abandoned
by the withdrawal of Government support, but during that
period he issued his nine folio volumes of American Archives.
A great many letters to him were received with his papers; in
1908, more were obtained from a dealer in Washington, and
from a sale in New York. The group recently acquired com-
pletes, it is believed, his bibliographical correspondence, so
far as this is extant. Nearly all the letters are addressed to
him; there are but few of his replies, as one of his idiosyn-
crasies was not to answer letters. Even more of an idiosyn-
crasy was his neglect even to open some of the letters which
he received. Among those which have recently been
acquired are several written in 1845 and 1846, which were
opened by Colonel Force's son, in 1869, a year after his

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DOCUMENTS:

father's death. The correspondence runs from 1818 to 1865,
and gives book prices and bibliographical information of the
highest value. Thus, on January 5, 1844, from Boston,
George Bancroft writes:

" Are you alive ? I send you today the copy you desired to
have made for you of the letters of Ingersoll," etc.

Some of the correspondents are: Henry Stevens, O. Rich,
Henry Onderdonk, George Bancroft, Lyman C. Draper, E. B.
O'Callaghan, Jared Sparks, and G. P. Putnam.

DIVISION OP DOCUMENTS
(From the report of the Chief, Dr. Harris)

During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, the accessions
to the Library, through the Division of Documents, were as
follows :

How acquired

Volumes

Pamphlets

Total

Received by virtue of law

2, 640

3, 2?O

c 070

Gifts of the Governments of the
United States in all its branches. .
Gifts of state governments

3.095

"2. I4O

1,069

6, 404

4, 164

Q. 6^4

Gifts of local governments

cio

704

I. 71?

Gifts of foreign governments (inter-
national exchange)

4, IC2

?, 460

7, 6l2

Gifts of corporations and associations .
By transfer

230
*, 620

3 2 9
2, 312

559
c. 041

Total recorded

17, 414

17,788

3 S) 2O2

By purchase, exchange, deposit, and
transfer (counted in Order Divis-
ion)

4, 867

1.. 748

8,615

By binding periodicals

2, 226

Total handled

24, t;o7

21, <;^6

46, 043

In addition to the above, 813 maps have been received by
official gift.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 75

The total number of volumes and pamphlets handled
during the year was 46,043 as compared with 42,064 for
the previous year. The receipts of the various classes of
documents vary considerably from year to year, but the
total number handled is somewhat in excess of the average
for the last few years. In spite of the interruptions to
which the international exchange service was subjected
because of the war conditions, the receipts of foreign
official publications for the current year are but little less
than those of the preceding year.

During the year special want lists have been sent to the
following countries: Argentine Republic, Australia, Bolivia,
Brazil, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India (including Agra and
Oudh, Ajmere-Merwara, Andaman Islands, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, Assam, Eastern Bengal and Assam, Bengal,
Bombay, Bombay City, Burma, Central Provinces, Ceylon,
Coorg, Haidarabad Districts, Madras, Mysore, North West
Provinces, Punjab, and Sind), Italy, Liberia, Natal, New
South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Nyassaland, Orange
Free State, Orange River Colony, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Portugal, Prince Edward Island, Queensland, Rhodesia,
Salvador, San Domingo, South Australia, Tasmania, Trans-
vaal, Union of South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria,
and Western Australia. In addition, special want lists to
complete the files of official gazettes were sent to: Brazil,
British Columbia, Burma, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon,
Edinburgh, India (including Calcutta), Jamaica, London,
Malta, New South Wales, New Zealand, Quebec, Roumania,
South Australia, Spain, and the Union of South Africa.

In addition to the regular consignments from the 92
countries on the international exchange list, the following
shipments of documents were received in response to special
requests: Bavaria, 19 volumes and pamphlets; Bermuda.

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3 volumes; British Colonies, 234 volumes and pamphlets;
Ceylon, 3 volumes; China, 753 volumes and pamphlets;
Colombia, 212 volumes and pamphlets; Costa Rica, 94
volumes and pamphlets; Cuba, 68 pamphlets; Ecuador, 104
volumes and pamphlets; Egypt, 34 volumes and pamphlets;
France, 61 volumes and pamphlets; Germany, 65 volumes
and pamphlets; Guatemala, 42 volumes and pamphlets;
Honduras, 104 volumes and pamphlets; India and Prov-
inces, 400 volumes and pamphlets ; Italy, 5 volumes; Japan,
3 volumes; Mexico, 40 pamphlets; Nicaragua, 31 volumes
and pamphlets; Prussia, 17 volumes; Russia, 12 volumes;
Santo Domingo, 35 volumes and pamphlets; Sweden, 4
volumes; Trinidad, 3 volumes; and Venezuela, 104 volumes
and pamphlets.

The special feature of the activities of the Division
during the year was an effort to perfect the files of official
gazettes of foreign governments. Considerable labor was
expended in this direction and, as a result, the collection
of gazettes may now be considered one of the important
features of the Library's collection of official literature. In-
cluded in the Library's files are the following gazettes, which
are practically complete for the years specified:

ANDAMAN. Andaman and Nicobar Gazette, 1904-1914.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Gaceta de Buenos Aires (reprint), 1811-1821.
Boletin oficial de la Repiiblica Argentina, Old Series, 1871-

1872*; New Series, 1893-1894*, 1900-1914.
AUSTRALIA. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 1901-1902, 1904-

1914.

BAHAMAS. Official Gazette, 1813-1814, 1903-1914.
BARBADOS. Official Gazette, 1867-1875, 1890-1914.
BELGIUM. Moniteur Beige, sept. i832-mai 1836, 1903-1914*.
BELGIAN CONGO. Congo beige. Bulletin officiel, 1885-1892, 1896-

1914*.

BOLIVIA. Registro oficial (title varies), 1896, 1900, 1903-1907.
BRAZIL. Diario official, 1831, 1835-1836, 1900-1914.
BRITISH COLUMBIA. The British Columbia Gazette, 1896-1914.
BRITISH GUIANA. Official Gazette, 1841-1842, 1850, 1852, 1862, 1864.
BRITISH HONDURAS. Government Gazette, 1898-1905.

* Incomplete.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 77

BULGARIA. D"rzhaven Viestnik, 1879-1880, 1882-1893, 1894*, 1908-

1911.

BURMA. The Burma Gazette, 1903-1914.
CANADA. The Canada Gazette, 1852, 1854, 1856-1857, 1864*. 1866,

1868, 1892-1914*.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape of Good Hope Gazette, 1901-1914.
CEYLON. The Ceylon Government Gazette, 1835-1836, 1892*, 1905-

1914.

CHILE. Diario oficial, 1878-1914*.
COLOMBIA. Diario oficial, 1822-1832, 1834, 1836, 1851, 1855, 1861/62-

1863/64, 1866*, 1904-1914.
COSTA RICA. La Gaceta, 1896-1914.
CUBA. Diario de la Habana, i832-junio 1902.

- Gaceta oficial, 1902-1914.

CYPRUS. The Cyprus Gazette, 1898-1899, 1903-1907.
DENMARK. Departementstidenden, 1850-1870.

- Ministerialtidende, 1871-1908.

ECUADOR. Registro oficial, 1864, 1899-1904, 1907, 1911-1912.
EGYPT. Journal officiel, 1907-1914.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES. Government Gazette, 1910-1914.
FRANCE. Journal officiel de la R6publique Francaise (title varies),

1789-1914.
GERMANY. Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Kongl. Preussischer

Staatsahzeiger, 1871-1893, 1903-1914.
GREAT BRITAIN. The London Gazette, 1665-1914.
GREECE. Ephemeris tes Kyberneseos, 1825-1903, 1904-1914*.
GUATEMALA. El Guatemalteco (title varies), 1824*, 1830-1832, 1848-

1871, 1903*, 1905-1906*, 1907-1910, 1911.

HAITI. Le Moriiteur, 1884-1885, 1887, 1890-1894, 1896, 1898-1914.
HONDURAS. La Gaceta (title varies), 1860, 1864, 1871, 1895*, 1898-

1914.

HONG KONG. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1891-1901.
INDIA. Calcutta Gazette, 1865-1895.

- Gazette of India, 1906-1914.

IRELAND. The Dublin Gazette, 1882-1883, 1886, 1888-1914.

ITALY. Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d 'Italia, 1861-1914.

JAMAICA. The Jamaica Gazette, 1903-1914.

JAVA. Javasche Courant, 1875-1914.

LABUAN. The Labuan Official Gazette, 1890-1905.

LEEWARD ISLANDS. Leeward Islands Gazette, 1904-1911.

MADAGASCAR. Journal officiel de Madagascar et d6pendances,

1901-1902*, 1904*, 1905*, 1906-1907, 1913-1914*.
MALTA. The Malta Government Gazette, 1905-1914.
MANITOBA. The Manitoba Gazette, 1903-1914.
MEXICO. Diario oficial (title varies), 1727*, 1728-1730, 1784-1785,

1816, 1821-1822*, 1824-1826, 1830*. 1835*, 1836-1847, 1858, 1809-

1914*.

* Incomplete.

78 Report of the Librarian of Congress

MEXICO. Baja California (Province). Boletin oficial. Organo del
Gobierno del distrito sur de la Baja California, 1907-1913.

Guerrero (Province). Periodico oficial del Gobierno del

Estado de Guerrero, 1903-1904*, 1910, 1911-1913.

NATAL. The Natal Government Gazette, 1903-1911.
NETHERLANDS. Nederlandsche Staats-Courant, 1814-1914.
NEW BRUNSWICK. The Royal Gazette, 1903-1912.
NEWFOUNDLAND. The Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser,

1903-1914. .

NEW SOUTH WALES. Government Gazette, 1886-1914.
NICARAGUA. Diario oficial, 1904, 1913-1914.

NORTH BORNEO. British North Borneo Herald, 1883-1909, 1911-1914.
NORTH WEST TERRITORIES (Canada). The North West Territories

Gazette, 1888-1892, 1904-1905.

NOVA SCOTIA. Royal Gazette, 1849-1854, 1858-1870, 1901-1914.
OCEANIA (French Colonies in). Bulletin officiel des Etablissements

francais dans 1 'Oceanic, 1847-1853.
ONTARIO. The Ontario Gazette, 1868-1914.
ORANGE RIVER COLONY. Government Gazette, 1905-1911.
PANAMA. Gaceta oficial, 1903-1904, 1007*, 1908-1914*.
PARAGUAY. Diario oficial (superseded in 1913 by a 'Boletin oficial',

for each ministry"), 1890-1896*, 1901-1911*.
PERU. El Peruano, 1908-1914*.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Gaceta de Manila, 1862-1898.

Official Gazette, 1902-1914.

PORTO Rico. Gaceta de Puerto Rico, 1836-1899.

- Official Gazette, 1909-1914.

PORTUGAL. Diario do Governo, 1834-1843, 1899-1914.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Royal Gazette, 1902-1907.
QUEBEC. Quebec Official Gazette, 1903-1914.
QUEENSLAND. Government Gazette, 1861-1914.
ROUMANIA. Monitorul oficial, 1903-1914.
RUSSIA. Senatskiia Viedomosti, 1825-1827, 1830-1831, 1834, 1837,

1840, 1843, 1846, 1848-1855, 1860, 1868-1869, 1873, 1875-1877, 1905,

1907-1914.
SALVADOR. Diario oficial (title varies), 1847/48-1865/66*, 1883*,

18991900*, 19021914*.
SANTO DOMINGO. Gaceta oficial (title varies), 1870*, 1888*, 1896*,

1900-1913*.
SARAWAK. The Sarawak Gazette, 1870-1877, 1881-1886, 1902, 1906,

1908-1910.

SASKATCHEWAN. The Saskatchewan Gazette, 1905-1914.
SCOTLAND. Edinburgh Gazette, 1820, 1822-1824, 1826-1840, 1845,

1849-1874, 1876-1881, 1883-1903, 1905-1914.
SERVIA. Srpske Novine, 1908-1914.

SOUTH AFRICA. Staats-Courant der Zuid-Afrika Republiek, 1895-1898.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Government Gazette, 1896-1914.

* Incomplete.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 79

SPAIN. Gaceta de Madrid, 1753, 1784-1785, 1787-1795, 1818, 1819*,

1826, 1829-1830, 1833-1852*, 1853-1914.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. The Perak Government Gazette, 1890-1909.
SWITZERLAND. Bundesblatt der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft,

1903-1914.

Feuille federate de la confederation Suisse, 1891-1914.
TASMANIA. Hobart Gazette, 1904-1906.

Tasmanian Gazette, 1907-1909, 1911-1914.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. Trinidad Royal Gazette, 1879-1881, 1910-

1914.

UNION OP SOUTH AFRICA. Official Gazette, 1910-1914.
URUGUAY. Diario oficial, 1890, 1891, 1905-1914.
VENEZUELA. Gaceta oficial, 1836-1838*, 1899-1914*.
VICTORIA. Victorian Government Gazette, 1851-1914.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Government Gazette, 1894, 1898-1899, 1903,'

1905-1914.

The countries on the international exchange list remain
the same as on July i, 1914, the number being 92.

The receipts of official publications of the states of the
United States were somewhat larger than for any previous
year. The number of these receipts since the creation of
the Division of Documents is as follows :

1908-9 3.554

1909-10 6, 386

1910-11 7,767

1911-12 9, 318

9,485

9, 28 3

5 9,634

I9OI2 2, l62

1902-3 I, 589

1903-4 I, O23

1904-5 2, 8l2

1905-6 3,884

igO 6 -? 3,245

1907-8 4, 128

The success of the Library in securing state documents
is, of course, due to the publication of the Monthly List of
State Publications by this Division. Each year some evi-
dence of the value of the service rendered by this List is
received by the Library, and during the past year two
technical publications on library science have called atten-
tion to the value of this publication.

The efforts of the Division to secure publications of inter-
national organizations of various kinds have been much
restricted during the current year. Among the important
items of this class received were the proceedings, papers,

* Incomplete.

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LAW LIBRARY:
Accessions

etc., of the following organizations: International Congress
in America for the Welfare of the Child, International Dry-
farming Congress, International Geological Congress, Inter-
national Housing Congress, International Opium Congress,
Congres techniques internationaux de prevention des acci-
dents du travail et d'hygiene industrielle, International
Congress on School Hygiene, Cuarto congreso cientifico (pri-
mero panamericano) Santiago de Chile, and Interparlia-
mentary Union.

During the year 5,648 volumes were sent to the bindery.

The number of duplicates eliminated and turned over to
the Order Division for exchange with other libraries was
27,689 (10,253 volumes and 17,436 pamphlets).

LAW LIBRARY

(From the report of the Law Librarian, Mr. Borchard)
The accessions during the year were as follows :

How acquired

1913-14

1914-15

Main
Library

Conference
Library

Main
Library

Conference
Library

By copyright. .

I, 506

1,274
772
1,617

By gift and transfer

I, 065
3 OI 4

273
407

119

555

By purchase

Total

5.585
6,
164,

680
265
382

3.663

4,
168,

674
337
7i9

Total accessions

Total contents of Law Library

The most noteworthy accessions have been:

DELAWARE. Session laws: 1806-1813 published in Dover, 1806-1813.
GERMANY BAVARIA. Gesetz- und verordnungs-blatt fur das Konig-

reich Bayern. 1885-1913. 30 v. .
ITALY. Collezione celerifera delle leggi, decreti, istruzioni e circolari

. . . 1822-1913. 121 v.
MEXICO. Boletin judicial. 1884-1910. 52 v. El foro. June 1873-

Dec. 1890. 35 v.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE. Session laws: 1776, October (p. 27-42) November
(P- 47-54); 1778, February (p. 87-90) May (p. 91-92) October-Decem-
ber (p. 93-104); and 1800, June (p. 562-565).

NEW YORK. Session laws: 1712, December (p. 155-163 i. e. 167); 1714,
June-July (p. 183-196) September (p. 239-280 i. e. 290); 1715, July
(p. 207-1238); 1716, June (p. 239-2451.6. 253); 1717, October-Novem-
ber (p. 246-302 lackingp. 256-257 and 287-290); 1718, July (p. 303-306)
October (p. 307-310); 1726, April-June (t. p. and p. 1-46 lacking p.
17-20) September-November (p. 1-36); 1727, November (p. 1-26);
and 1728, July-September (p. 1-55). Ordinances: 1716 and 1727-
1728.

In connection with the work of the Legislative Reference
Division of the Library of Congress, the endeavor has been
made to keep the statutory material in the Library complete
and up to date.

During the year important additions have been made to Seaioniav,

,, 11 . r > -i and State reports

the collections ot state session laws and law reports in execu-
tion of the plan to acquire one copy of the session laws
prior to 1800, two copies from 1800 to 1839, and three
copies from 1840 to date. The aim has been also to acquire
three copies of the law reports of the different states.

The limited space at the Law Library and the great Rearrangement
increase of digests, compilations and treatises in law has'/,^'* 1
again necessitated the rearrangement of the collection so as
to prevent overcrowding at the Capitol and has proportion-
ately increased that part of the collection which is located
in the main building. The need of steel shelving recom-
mended in last year's report is becoming more evident.

The recataloguing of law has not made as much progress A-. ,//,. ./u.n^
during the year as was hoped, owing to the great amount of f: *,,/,'* /<,"
work incumbent upon the Catalogue Division. The recata-
loging will, it is believed, proceed with greater rapidity
during the coming year.

Mr. White has resumed the cataloguing of the eariy
colonial statutes which was begun two years ago but was
suspended last year. An effort will be made to continue
this important work until the colonial statutes have been
completely catalogued.

82 Report of the Librarian of Congress

sut> reme Court The binding of the United States Supreme Court Records

r.cords and briefs

and Briefs into volumes in the order in which the decisions
are printed in the United States Reports has been continued
during the year. During the summer months the earlier
volumes in the Carpenter collection, in which the briefs are
now to be found with great difficulty only, will be rebound
according to the new order.

Foreign law f ne collection s of foreign law have continued their steady
increase of the last few years until now a representative
collection of the important legal literature of the world has
been assembled in the Library. The principal deficiencies
exist in the material covering the countries of Latin America,
and it was in part for the purpose of bringing to the Library
the important legal literature of the Latin-American coun-
tries that (in cooperation with certain service for the
Department of Commerce) the Law Librarian was com-
missioned to visit the countries of South America, a trip
which was begun early in June, 1915, and which is to be
completed in December, 1915. The literature acquired and
the information concerning Latin- American law which, it is
hoped, will be secured are to be used in the preparation of
a "Guide to the law and legal literature of Latin America,"
one of the series of guides to foreign law, the publication of
which was begun by the Library in 1912.

Guide to the law ^ " Guide to the law and legal literature of Spain," pre-

an.1 legal literature

of spam pared under the direction of the Law Librarian by Mr.

Thomas W. Palmer, jr., Sheldon Fellow, of the Harvard
University Law School, has now been published. The
method by which the Library was enabled to avail itself of
Mr. Palmer's service was mentioned in the Annual Reports
of 1913 and 1914.

international The importance of the Library's collection of international
law has been attested by its satisfaction of the many demands
made upon it during the last year by Members of Congress,
by government institutions, and by private students

Report of the Librarian of Congress 83

throughout the country. Much attention has been given
to the systematic development of this collection during the
past few years. With the aid of the cards in stock a subject-
catalogue of the collection is being prepared for the special
use of the Law Division, where calls upon it are very frequent.

DIVISION OF MAPS AND CHARTS
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Phillips)

The following tables A and B, respectively, show the
number of accessions for the year, and the total mumber of
pieces in the Map Division :

TABLE A Accessions, July I, 1914, to June 30,

Description

Purchase

Gift

Transfer

Exchange

Total

Sheet maps, in-
cluding pocket
maps.

2, 016

e-?i

I.8C2

486

4 806

Atlases

1 06

04.

261

Manuscripts

Views

7 8

171

Total

2, 1 60

6?4

i, 870

611

5776

MAPS A if n

CHARTS:
A ccessions

TABLE B Total number of pieces in Map Division, June jo, 70/5

Description

June 30, 1914

Accessions.
1915

total

Sheet maps, including pocket maps. . . .
Atlases

134,475
"?, "H4

4,896
261

139,37*
5, 795

Manuscripts

Q4I

949

Views

I, 267

171

i,438

Total

142, 217

5, ^6

147, 553

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These tables do not include the total number of sheets in
the Sanborn insurance collection, the British Ordnance
survey, and the Egyptian survey, which number as follows:

Description

Accessions, 1914-15

Total

Maps

Sheets

Maps

Sheets

Sanborn insurance maps ...

850

9,638

2 5,767

2 36,379
17,217

22, 660

Ordnance survey

Egyptian survey

Total

276,256

County maps

Adding these as sheets to the general estimate the number
of pieces would amount to 423,809. The Sanborn insurance
maps continue to be most consulted by various departments
of the Government.

In 1902 circulars were sent to the surveyors of all the
counties in the United States, numbering over 3,020,
requesting a report as to what maps were published of the
individual county. The answers were so satisfactory in
gifts and information that this year similar circulars were
issued, with like good results. Of the maps received, 141
were presented and 145 purchased. Returns are still being
received. These county maps are frequently consulted by
the Government and students.

The issue of maps included 325 to the Supreme Court,
Departments, and Members of Congress.

Fifty-six atlases have been rebound and a large number
sent to the bindery to be lettered on the back. This is a
most necessary work, as it saves the trouble of internal
examination of very bulky material.

Reproductions Maps photoduplicated during the year numbered 45 and
photographed 8. These reproductions were principally from
the Lowery descriptive list.

Loans

Binding

Report of the Librarian of Congress 85

Although the collection shows a notable increase in num-
her from Government transfers, county maps, and old and
new copyright material, the acquisition of rare material,
procurable chiefly in Europe, has of course been very lim-
ited. The following, however, are noted :

Olives, Jaume. Catalan portulan or maritime chart drawn on vellum
(58x81 cm.) of the sixteenth century, of the Atlantic coasts of
Europe as far as the south of Sweden, and including the coasts of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Mediterranean, and the coasts of
North Africa including the Canary islands. The portulan is care-
fully executed in colour and is dated "Jaume Ollives mallorquicn
Marsela 1550". Jaume Olives was a member of the famous Catalan
family and is known by six portulans dated from 1557 to 1566 (Mes-
sina, 1559 and 1561, Naples 1563, and two at Marseilles 1566 and one
without an address of 1557)

A most important portulan as it is the oldest known made by
Olives. The portulan is beautifully executed and the coasts are
filled with the names of towns in red and black. The interiors of
the countries delineated are ornamented with the portraits of kings
sitting on their thrones, such as Rey de Francia, Rey de Polonia,
Rey de Tunis, Rey d'Espana, Rey de Tremsen (Algeria) Soldan de
Babilonia, Gran Turch, etc. The large towns are ornamented with
outline views, and are charmingly coloured. At the top of the
portulan is a pen and ink drawing of the Virgin feeding the infant
Jesus.

Anonymous Italian sixteenth century portulan or maritime chart
drawn on vellum (53x75 cm.) of the coasts of Spain, Southern
France, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Southern Russia, Asia
Minor, Syria, North Africa as far as the Straits of Gibraltar.

A very interesting portulan. The views of the towns of Venice,
Genoa, Marseilles and Tortosa are more detailed than the rest. Per-
haps the author of the portulan was born or lived in these towns. The
interior of Africa is covered with animal pictures, dragons, travelers
on horseback, etc.

Anonymous Italian portulan or maritime chart (42x57 cm.) drawn
on vellum. This portulan was executed in the second half of the four-
teenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century, and shows the coasts
of Southern France, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Southern Rus-
sia, Asia Minor, Syria and North Africa as far as Algeria. The whole
is carefully executed in green and red. This portulan is in excellent
condition.

For a similar portulan see the Pinelli-Walckenaer portulan dated
1384, reproduced by Nordcnskiold in the Periplus, xv xvii.
Our portulan is about the same size and covers the same ground, the
islands are colored in red and represented by a rudimentary. An
interesting specimen of a very early maritime chart.

86 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Domenech, Arnaldo. A very interesting Catalan chart drawn on vel-
lum (61x38 cm. )of distances between the various centres of commerce
in Europe, Asia, and Africa, dated 1484 and executed by "mi Ar-
naldo Domenech disipulo petri Rosellanno", on which the chief
towns are figured with towers, etc., and the arms of the countries in
which they are situated. The following towns, etc. are figured
Montpellier, Perpinya, Tortosa, Valencia, Sevilla, Alexandria,
Bruges, Avignon, Matela, Barcelona, Genoa, Toulouse, Pisa, Naples,
Majorca, Tunis, Venice, Constantinople, Acre, Damascus, Beirut.
This chart represents a type of the greatest rarity of which very few
are known.

Anonymous portulanor sea-chart drawn on vellum (50x20 cm.) mounted
to roll upon a wooden roller, containing coloured and well
executed details of the coasts of Africa, Asia and Europe and espe-
cially of the Mediterranean sea and the Bay of Biscay. This
specimen was certainly executed in Italy for the use of merchant
seafarers at the commencement of the i6th century. It is fully
described in "Studi biografici e bibliografici sulla storia della geo-
grafia in Italia" by G. Uzielli and P. Amat di S. Filippo. 2. ed.
Rome, 1882, vol. n. The portulan belonged to the Marchioness
Gerdano de Colloredo (Melz) in Udine.

Scotti, Giacomo, of Genoa. Very interesting set of 8 portulans or
maritime charts drawn on vellum, executed about A. D. 1510.
Showing the British Isles and the Mediterranean shores. Bound in
a quarto volume. Not known to Uzielli and P. Amat di S. Filippo.
These portulans are not only of great interest for the history of
the state of geographical discovery in Europe in the i6th century,
but are of great human interest as showing us on what the mariners
and merchants of the Middle Ages relied, to buffet the storm and
dangers of the sea.

Beck, G. A view of Georgetown and the Federal city. 1801.

Bellasis, George Hutchins. View of St. Helena. 1815.

Blanchard, Joseph. Map of New Hampshire. 1784. Photoduplicate
of the only known copy in the Harvard college library.

Bowles, Carrington, Atlas. 1770.

Bradley, Abraham, jr. Map of the United States. 1796.

Braun, Georg. Civitates orbis terrarum [1564-1620]

Brouckner, Isaac. Der erste preussische see atlas Nouvel atlas
de marine, 1749 [Reprint, 1912] Original copy in the I/. C.

Brue, Adrien Hubert. Atlas universel de geographic. 1838.

Campbell, Archibald. North view of Fort Royal in the island of Mar-
tinique in 1759.

- South view of Fort Royal.
East view of Fort Royal.

Carey, Mathew. General atlas. 1817.

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Chiquet, Jacques. Nouveau et curieux atlas geographique et his-

torique [1719]
Cluver, Philip. Introductionis in universam geographiatn, 1659.

Same, 1697.

Cook, James, and Lane, Michael. Pilote de Terre-Neuve. 1784.
Doolittle, Amos, engraver. Rio de la Plata. 1819.
Early manuscript map of the Isthmus of Darien. [anon.]
Eight original water color sketches in Guadeloupe, ms. 1820.
Faden, William. The marches of Lord Cornwallis in the southern

provinces. 1787.
Fer, Nicolas de. Le theatre de la guerre dessus et aux environs du

Rhein. 1705.
Fry, Joshua, and Jefferson, Peter. Map of Virginia and Maryland, 1751.

Photoduplicate of the only known original engraved edition, a copy

of which is in the New York Public Library.
Goos, Peter. Lighting colomne. 1660.

Guicciardini, Ludovico. Descrittione . . . di tvtti i paesi bassi. 1558-
Hauducoeur, C. P. Map of the Chesapeake bay and the Susquehanna

river. 1799.

Kitchin, Thomas. General atlas. 1790?
Lea, Philip. Atlas of the world . 1695?
Le Rouge, George Louis. Atlas. 1744-47.
Mansfield, I. T. Manuscript map of Ohio. 1825.
Martinez, Fernando. Descripcion geographica de la parte que los

espanoles poseen ... en el continente de la Florida. 1765.

Colored ms. copy of the original in the Archivio general de Indias.
Martini, Martino. Novus atlas sinensis. 1648.
Mercator, Gerard. Atlas. 1589.

- Atlas minor. 1608.

Morden, Robert. Geography rectified. 1680.
New York harbor. Ms. view, [anon.] 1840?
Norman, John. American pilot. 1794.
Overton, Henry. Accurate map of the english colonies in North

America bordering on the Ohio. 1754. Interesting from containing

the following: "HereG. Washington engag'd y french 1754". The

map has marginal text giving account of the action at Fort Necessity.
Peterson, D. Cantonment of his majesty's forces in North America.

In manuscript. 1766.
Phelipeau, Rene. Plan de la plaine du cap Francais en 1'isle St.

Domingue. 1786.

Popple, Henry. Map of the British empire in America . . . En-
graved by William Henry Toms. 1733. The Library of Congress has

another copy of same date, engraved by W. H. Toms and R. W.

Searle.
Quad, Matthias. Europae totius orbis'terrarum partis praestantissi-

mae. 1592.

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Romero, Francisco Diaz. Carta chorographica del archipelago de las
islas Philipinas, 1727. Photograph reproduction of original in the
British Museum.

Saint Augustine harbor. Ms. map [anon.] 1805-6.

Sanson, Nicolas. Cartes generates . . . du monde. 1658.

Santiago naval battle. Three ms. tracings of the battle, used by the
Sampson-Schley board of inquiry.

Tavernier, Melchior. Theatre du royaume de France. 1638.

Turgot-Bretez. Plan of Paris. 1739.

Valck, C. J. and Schenk, Peter. Atlantis sylloge compendiosa. 1709.

Vivien de Saint-Martin, Louis. Atlas universel. 1827.

Voogt, C. J. and Loon, J. van. De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fackel

Willyams, Cooper. View of the bay and tovra of St. Pierre. 1796.

View of forts Bourbon and Louis in . . . Martinique.
1796.

Pigeon island, Martinique. 1796.

Bay of Maran. 1796.

Fort Louis ... in Martinique. 1796.

Zeiller, Martin. Topographia Italiae. 1688.

Harrisse bequest The several important manuscript maps received with
the Harrisse bequest are noted supra under "Increase of
the Library."

Copyright maps Cuttings from the copyright bulletins, relating to maps
and atlases received, are kept up to date. These cuttings
give a subject catalogue from 1897 to 1915. They are often
consulted by the Copyright office and could at any time be
reprinted as a list of copyright map material received from
the above date.

List of atlases The third volume of the List of Atlases is now in circula-
tion and appears to be as useful as the volumes previously
published. No review of it has as yet appeared in this
country. In Europe the appreciation has been more prompt.
Sir Herbert George Fordham, the eminent cartologist, has
this to say about it and its companion volumes (in his
"Studies in carto-bibliography." Oxford, 1914):

" In the United States of America the Library of Con-
gress has collected a large series of important atlases,
and the printed catalogue of atlases issued by that Li-
brary, giving a description of the atlases and the maps

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they contain, with notes, is of the greatest value not
only for its intrinsic merits but as a first effort in sys-
tematic bibliography in this branch of the science."
p. vi.

"I have adopted the year of publication as the foun-
dation fact, and it should, I consider, with the index
title or name, be set in a thick, or distinctive type. On
this point the arrangement adopted in the recently
published 'List of geographical atlases in the Library of
Congress' (Washington, 1909, 8) is worth comparison.
The date, where doubtful, or approximate, should be
suitably qualified. My practice is to add an asterisk on
the left of the date figures, which are themselves in-
dented, to all reprints and secondary impressions. It
can thus be seen at a glance, on looking through a list,
what are original impressions, and what are the items
which have an earlier history." p. 97.

"I think it would be well if complete atlases were
separately catalogued in all libraries. The recent pub-
lication of the 'List of geographical atlases in the Li-
brary of Congress ' is a work of great interest in this
connexion. If the British Museum could publish a
similar catalogue of the atlases in its collection, it
would, I think, be of great value. Although the atlases
in that library are readily accessible through the Map
catalogue, a good deal of time is lost in distinguishing
them in the long lists of individual maps which there
occur. Again, it would be of service, in such a collec-
tion, if the individual maps could be each marked with
its source. The work of making this annotation would,
however, be a serious one. The cartographic wealth
of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris is much obscured
by the absence of efficient and accessible cataloguing,,
but here there is, I fear, very little hope of improve-
ment. If the British Museum and the Bibliotheque
Nationale would each publish a list of atlases on the
lines of that of the Library of Congress, the light thrown
on the bibliographical side of this subject would really be
very important." p. 103.

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Aliases In addition to the 4,087 atlases, bibliography described in

the above mentioned work, the collection has been increased
by 1,708 additional, most of which are described in manu-
script, making a total of 5,795 atlases.

California The chief of this Division has compiled a descriptive list

of the maps of California and views of San Francisco, which
is now ready for publication. As the cartography of Cali-
fornia embraces most of the early maps of the western coast
of this country, the publication will not only be timely but
of permanent interest.

Bibliography of The Bibliography of cartography, a work in which the

cartography

Chief of the Division has been at work at odd occasions for
about twenty years, is ready to be sent to press. It is ar-
ranged in dictionary order, author and subject combined.
In manuscript it has been in constant use for reference. It
has been consulted in the making of our "Lists" and for
quick information to the public. Most of the books and
. periodicals supposed to contain references to maps have been
analysed, also information found in most obscure sources.
The most important information is perhaps the reviews of
maps and atlases in old periodicals and newspapers. As
the most important maps are rarely published with dates,
the information supplied by these reviews and advertise-
ments is peculiarly desirable. In addition there is inserted
everything noted relating to the makers and making of
maps, atlases and views, throughout the world.

Author list The "Author list of the geographical atlases," which is

reprinted from the third volume of the "List of geographical
atlases" has proved most useful, not only as a handy check
list for the Division, but also as a reference guide for the
information of libraries and book sellers.

Washington The Chief of this j^s^n has also a i most completed a

maps

descriptive list of the maps and views of Washington, from
the earliest records to the present. These maps and views

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are not only in "separates," but also in books, periodicals,
etc. In order to make this work as authentic as possible,
a study of Washington from books and newspapers was
absolutely necessary. Missing dates have often thus been
found, to the advantage of litigation over Government
reservations within the city. The compilation will include
not merely maps, but views and public buildings.

DIVISION OF MUSIC

(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Sonneck)
Accessions of the Music Division for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915

Copy-
right

Gift

Pur-
chase

Ex-
change

Tians-
fer

Other

Total

Music

2O, 460

2C7

I, 147

1^2

22, I2O

Literature of music.

322

4OQ

8=;

QI3

Instruction

6oO

820

Total

21, 472

S2O

I, c;8Q

260

23, 8^3

Contents of the Music Division at the close of theficsal year, June 30, 1915

Music :

The Division contained up to June 30, 1914,

volumes and pieces 653, 974

Accessions during the fiscal year numbered,

volumes and pieces 22, 120

Total on June 30, 1915 676, 094

Literature of Music :

The Division contained up to June 30, 1914,

volumes and pieces 31, 627

Accessions during the fiscal year numbered 913

Total on June 30, 1915 32, 540

Instruction :

The Division contained up to June 30, 1914,

volumes and pieces 18, 354

Accessions during the fiscal year numbered 820

Total on June 30, 1915 19, 174

Grand total, volumes, pamphlets, etc 727, 808

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MUSIC DIVISION: For obvious reasons the growth of the collection bv pur-

A ccessians

chase or foreign copyright deposits has been far below normal
during the past year. Some of the most important acquisi-
tions by purchase or gift are grouped below.

Of transcripts the following are among the most interest-
ing: Caldara's L'Olimpiade; Cornacchioli's Diana schernita,
1629; Fioravanti's II villano in angustie; Hasse's Didone
abbandonata; Perez' Artaserse and Olimpiade; Peri's L'Eu-
ridice, 1608; Righini's Armida; Sard's L'Olimpiade (Act
II) ; Scarlatti's La caduta de' Decemviri and II prigionier
fortunate; Telemann's Genserich; v. Winter's I fratelli
rivali.

Other noteworthy acquisitions are: Agricola's Cleofide;
Alexandre's Le petit maitre en province; Bernier's Motets,
1703-1713; Blum's Zoraide; Het Boeck der Psalmen Davids,
Antwerpen, 1580; Camphuysen's Stichtelycke rymen, 1624;
A collection of the choicest songs and dialogues, London
(ca. 1715); Glinka's Ruslan i Liildmila (original edition,
1878); Gluck's Cythere assiegee (Des Lauriers edition) and
Iphigenie en Aulide (Bureau d'abonnement) ; Graun's
Fetonte and Orfeo; Grenet's Apollon berger d'Admete;
Gretry's L'amant jaloux (Houbaut edition) ; Handel's
Admetus and Tamerlane (both Cluer's edition) ; Holbrooke's
The Children of Don and Dylan (full scores); Holden's
Worcester collection of sacred harmony, Boston, 1803;
Leduc's subscription edition of 26 Haydn symphonies in
score; Lully's Persee, 1722 (2d ed.); Meyerbeer's Les Hugue-
nots (full score, ist ed.); Moniuszko's Sonette aus der
Krimm (Ms. orchestral score); W. Norman's The Musical
repertory, Boston, nos. I-III (1796-97); Ouvrage periodique
de chansons et romances civignes, Paris (1794-99), nos -
20-28, 33-35; Paisiello's La serva padrona; Purcell's Te
Deum et Jubilate, 2d ed. (1704?); Reichardt's Brenno;
Rendano's Consuelo; Ries's Liska; Sacchini's Oedipe &

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Colone; Select musicall ay res and dialogues, John Playford,
1653 (3 books); The singer's companion, New York, 1857;
Starter's Friesche lust-hof, 1627; Tarchi's Le trent et qua-
rante; Zumsteeg's Kantaten nos. 1-17 (Breitkopf and
Hartel edition).

In addition should be mentioned several hundred opera
librettos mostly illustrating operatic life in Great Britain
during the i8th century; specimen autographs of J. S. Bach,
Beethoven, Boisdeffre, Brahms, P. Hillemacher, Neukomm,
Reyer, Widor, etc., and the following gifts:

From Mr. William Arms Fischer the first edition (1870) of
Foster's "A thousand miles from home" ; from Mr. Henry F.
Gilbert the autograph of his "Pirate Song"; from Mr. Ernst
Kletsch three i7th century French opera librettos; from
Mr. T. Carl Whitmer the original manuscripts of his essays
"Considerations on music" and "Concerning a national
religious drama" and of his compositions: God of the dew,
God of the sun (Song) , In meditation (Organ) , In memoriam
(Organ), June (Song), Night (Women's chorus with harp
accompaniment), The rock. The sea (Unaccompanied
women's choruses), Silver nocturne (Song), A song (Song),
Song of the wicked friar, Symbolisms (for reader and piano) ,
Where the tree of Life is blooming (Song).

Equally welcome was the gift of the music belonging to
the late distinguished and music-loving Superintendent of the
Library of Congress, Mr. Bernard R. Green. It was pre-
sented by his widow and consists of over 350 works for the
flute, principally chamber music. The gift recalls Colonial
times, for the "German flute" was then the favorite instru-
ment of gentlemen as it was of Mr. Green in his younger days.
And to judge from his flute music collection he must have
been a performer of taste and considerable skill.

The "Catalogue of First editions of Stephen C. Foster"
compiled by me and my assistant, Mr. Whittlesey, was

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scheduled for publication during the past fiscal year but has
just now (Oct. 1915) been published.

Finally, a few words may not be amiss on last year's ex-
hibitions of the Music Division: (i) in the Main exhibition
halls: First editions of Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864) and
specimen autographs of Beethoven, Liszt, Rossini, Chopin,
Spohr, Brahms, etc., etc.; (2) in the Basement a large exhibit
illustrating early secular and sacred music in America
and particularly the origin and vicissitudes of "The Star
Spangled Banner", written in September, 1814.

PERIODICAL DIVISION
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Slade)

The Librarv now receives through the Periodical Division,

Statistics

8,184 current periodicals (last year 7,842), this total includ-
ing second copies of periodicals taken up from the Copyright
Office, now 929 in number, and 1,622 separate titles received
through the Smithsonian Institution. As this number,
however, does not include yearbooks, 'almanacs, annual
reports and similar serials, or board of trade, and official
serial publications, municipal, state, Federal and foreign,
the total number of serials now being received by the
Library is of course vastly greater.

The number of periodicals noted above as taken up from
the Copyright Office is 199 less than the total of 1,128
taken up from that office last year. If, in some cases,
there has been failure to register periodicals for copy-
right, publishers ordinarily continue to send the periodicals
to the Library as gifts, so the journals most suited to our
particular needs are still being received. At the same time
it is to be borne in mind that all periodicals copyrighted
are not needed in the files of the Library, and it has been
our aim, in view of the great output of American periodical
publishing, to restrict the bulk of material taken into our

Report of the Librarian of Congress 95

permanent collections of serials so far as this may be done
without lessening the breadth or the efficiency of our service.

The whole number of periodical acquisitions checked on
the card index in the Periodical Division was 122,218.

New titles added during the year included: Copyright,
268; gift, 617; subscription, 94; Smithsonian, 155.

The number of newspapers received is 965, of which 849
are American and 116 foreign. Of the American news-
papers, 634 are daily papers, and 215 are weekly. Of
the foreign newspapers, 97 are daily papers, and 19 are
weekly.

The daily newspaper and periodical mail received by the
Division is estimated as in former years to average about
1,000 items.

The number of newspapers retained for binding is now as
follows: American, 218, foreign, 94; total, 312. The
newspapers not bound are kept for varying lengths of
time, one month, one year, five years, as the case may be.

The binding during the year was as follows : Newspapers,
1,517 volumes; periodicals, 4,795 volumes. (Last year:
Newspapers, 1,690 volumes; periodicals, 5,976 volumes.)

In the case of the newspapers we were obliged in the
month of March to discontinue binding for the balance of
the fiscal year because of the lack of funds, and at the com-
mencement of the new fiscal year we had an arrears of 824
volumes ready for binding.

The diminution in the number of volumes of periodicals
bound is due to several things, partly to the deliberate omis-
sion of certain periodicals as not desirable for permanent
preservation, partly to the difficulty in completing volumes
of" periodicals published in the countries now at war, and
partly to the pressure of other work which on occasion has
caused us to interrupt the preparation of material for
binding.

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Volumes of newspapers served by the Periodical Division
to readers in the Main Reading Room were 7,641 (1914,
7,246; 1913, 5,739), and the volumes of periodicals served
were 11,628 (1914, 10,398; 1913, 12,433). This number of
volumes of periodicals, it should be noted, represents the
service of periodicals from only one chapter in the Library's
classification, namely AP, the chapter which is included in
the direct service of the Periodical Division. The number
11,628 is therefore representative of only a part of the use
of bound volumes of periodicals in the Library, when all
chapters in the scheme of classification are taken into
account.

Newspaper ac- ^ as j- vear we ^ a( j occas i on to note, among newspaper

quisitions

acquisitions, the transfer from the War Department of 26
volumes and 1,671 numbers, printed during the Civil War
period and nearly all printed in the South. Our collection
of Confederate newspapers has been further augmented by
the recent purchase of a lot of 892 numbers, which, among
other items, included the Daily Southern Cross, Jackson,
Mississippi, 63 numbers; Chattanooga Daily Rebel, 152
numbers; Jackson Daily Mississippian, 63 numbers; Savan-
nah Weekly Republican, 19 numbers; Richmond Whig and
Public Advertiser, semi weekly, 66 numbers; Natchez
Courier, semi weekly, 126 numbers; Mobile Evening News,
daily, 6 numbers; Mobile Advertiser and Register, daily, 193
numbers; and Natchez Weekly Courier, 24 numbers.

Another acquisition was a file of the Times and District
of Columbia Advertiser, covering the period October 29,
1799, to April 15, 1800.

Following are certain other items acquired: New York
Gazette and Weekly Mercury, March 16, 1772, to June 7,
1779, 101 numbers; New York Journal or the General Adver-
tiser, 1774 to 1776, scattering numbers; New York Packet
and the American Advertiser, July 4, 1776; Kentucky

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Gazette, Lexington, 1788 to 1793, 100 scattering numbers;
Georgia Gazette, 1763 to 1765, photostat reprint; Concordia
Weekly Intelligencer, Vidalia, Louisiana, July 7, 1849, to
June 8, 1850; New Orleans Commercial Times, September
i, 1847, to December 31, 1847, May i, 1848, to August n,
1848; New Orleans Semi- Weekly Bulletin, June, 1848, to
May 30, 1849; Boston Semi- Weekly Courier, November 15,
1858, to December 29, 1859; Chicago Times, 1864 to 1865,
scattering numbers; Kentucky Whig, Mt. Sterling, Ken-
tucky, May 14, 1852, to May 5, 1854; Boston Evening
Transcript, 1830 to 1847; Long Island Star, Brooklyn, New
York, 1815 to 1819; Federal Union, Milledgeville, Georgia,
1 86 1 to 1869, 189 scattering numbers; Charleston, South
Carolina, Observer, January 20, 1827, to January 3, 1829,
101 scattering numbers; Southern Recorder, Milledgeville,
Georgia, 1839 to 1859, 853 scattering numbers; True Sun,
New York, 1844 to 1846; American Citizen, Albany, 1842;
American Citizen and General Advertiser, New York, 1804
to 1806; Morning Chronicle, New York, 1803 to 1807; the
National Advocate, New York, 1813 to 1817; New York
Morning News, 1844 to 1846; New York Patriot, 1823;
Courrier des Etats-Unis, New York, 1833, 1834; the Atlas,
New York, 1830 to 1832; New York Herald, daily, 1836 to
1851 ; New York Herald, weekly, 1839; the Columbian, New
York, 1817; Albany Evening Journal," 1838 to 1844; New
Era, New York, 1840 to 1842; the Public Advertiser, New
York, 1807; National Gazette and Literary Register, Phila-
delphia, 1828 to 1840; New York Daily Transcript, 1863;
New York Daily Transcript, Extra, 1864; Farmer's Reposi-
tory, Charlestown, West Virginia, 1808 to 1827; Hartford
Courant, 1865 to 1887, scattering numbers, nearly com-
pleting our file for this period; Courier, London, 1812 to
1817; Star, London, June 17 to December 31, 1793; Bath
Journal, September 16, 1745, to September 21, 1747; Jahres-

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Periodical ac- berichte liber die Vcranderungen und Fortschritte in Mili-

quisilions

tarwesen, Berlin, volumes i to 18, 20, 21, 1874 to 1894;
Madras Law Journal, volumes 9 to 26, 1899 to 1914; Boletin
judicial, Mexico, 1884 to 1910; El Foro, Mexico, 1873 to
1890; Haschiloah, Berlin, volumes i to 25, 1896 to 1911;
Ex-Libris. Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekzeichen Bucherkunde
und Gelehrtengeschichte, volumes 2 to 15, 1892 to 1905;
South Africa, volumes i to 42, 65, 66, 1889 to 1899, 1905;
Plain Speaker, London, volume i, 1849; Reformist's Register
London, numbers i to 18.

List of serials Rules of procedure have been formulated, outlines drawn,
and a basis established for the work in progress on the
List of serials in the Library, and the work has been going
forward on this basis.

We have met with the initial difficulty that, while the
titles we shall include are all readily identifiable in the
Library's records, there is no place in which they are cen-
tralized excepting the Reading Room catalogues; and by
experiment we have found that it is not feasible to search
through the hundreds of thousands of cards in these cata-
logues for periodical titles and then to supplement the
information set forth on the cards with information existing
in our records elsewhere. The catalogue of periodicals in
the Periodical Division is our main source. But this cata-
logue is deficient in entries for periodical material in the
Music Division and in the Law Division, while under the
first plan of construction of this catalogue it is still deficient
as regards periodical material in the chapters of the Library
first reclassified, namely, E, F, and Z. We are now going
through the shelf lists for these chapters for titles wanted,
while the Chief of the Music Division and the Law Librarian
are cooperating and will furnish the Periodical Division
with titles of periodicals in their custody.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 99

The bound volumes of newspapers in the Library, forming Use f news

per collections

a collection of material which is notably rich and in ensemble
nowhere else to be duplicated, have been in use by students
and investigators as in no previous year. A statement
showing the number of volumes served in the Main Reading
Room each year during the five years just ended presents
the following exhibit:

Volumes

I9 11 5)95!

1912 6, 596

5>739
7. 2 46
7> 641

Total for five years 33, 173

Statistics such as these are merely suggestive, at best.
What serviceable aid the investigation may gain is likewise
suggested by the word of a historian working in the Library
who said when the volume he wanted was produced "You
have saved me a trip to Mexico." Daily the collection is
being explored for economic, historical, political, social,
literary, and other material, the increase in use being the
inevitable result of the possession of such a large and im-
portant body of material.

During the year, 270 responses were made in answer t.o ot ^^ n a r ^ cH and
letters of inquiry. The greater part of our current activity,
in so far as it relates to service to Congress and to the
public, is of a nature which does not permit of statistical
record. Cooperation with the Legislative reference divi-
sion has given us many new opportunities of service and,
during the session of Congress, materially increased our
work.

We hope during the coming year to add to our newspaper
collections through exchange, a list of our duplicate news-
papers available for exchange being now in press.

PRINTS:

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New lighting fixtures have been installed in the Periodical
reading room, the room has been re tinted, and a floor-
covering has been laid down. The new lighting fixtures
replace the direct with indirect lighting.

DIVISION OF PRINTS
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. A. J. Parsons)

The increase of the collection has been :

By copyright. ... 7,552

By transfer 814

By purchase 418

By gift 159

By exchange 2

8,945

The collection of prints now totals 385,757 pieces.
The most important purchases of the year have been:

Purchases

1 . Two hundred and eighty-five photographs of European
masterpieces of painting, and of English architecture.

2. Sixty-eight etchings by modern representative artists,
such as Affleck, Baird, Farrell, Hardie, Macbeth-Raeburn,
Maxwell, Murray, Neave, Osborne, Rushbury, Smythe,
Sparks, Strang, Thomas, etc., of the English school. Aid,
Blum, Burr, Chandler, Colewaert, Gleeson, Goldthwaite,
MacLaughlin, etc., of the American school.

3. Twenty-two reproductions (in color) of the paintings
by old and modern masters, the publications of the Medici
Society of London.

Gifts Among the most interesting gifts were:

1. Eleven prints, publications of the Iconographic Society,
by John Woodbury, Boston, Mass.

2. Fifteen colored wood engravings, representing Japanese
subjects, by Mrs. Bertha Lum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Transfers The most important transfer was that from the War

Department, comprising 731 photographs taken in connec-
tion with Wheeler's Expedition of the looth Meridian.

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The following exhibitions were put in place during the Exhibitions
year:

1. Collection of 123 books, 40 prints, and 14 manuscripts,
in commemoration of the purchase of the Thomas Jefferson
Library by the United States government (approved Jan.
30, 1815) to replace the Library destroyed in the destruction
of the Capitol by the British, August 24, 1814.

2. Collection of 130 etchings by Charles Storm van
'sGravesande (1841-) Dutch school.

3. Collection of 262 etchings by Charles Adams Platt
(1861-) American school.

4. Collection of 50 mezzotints, engravings, etc., forming
the recent accession to the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Col-
lection.

Among the special exhibitions made during the year, two
loan collections of prints may be mentioned; one, compris-
ing the entire work in etching and dry point, of the Ameri-
can artist and architect Charles Adams Platt, who, to the
regret of his many friends and admirers, gave up this mode
of expression a score of years ago, in order to devote himself
unreservedly to the practice of architecture. He had then
a recognized position in the front rank of American etchers,
which this exhibition of his complete work amply justifies.

Not only are all the published states shown, 1 1 2 in number,
but grouped around them are the various trial proofs, which
illustrate in most instructive fashion the progress of work
on the copper plate, and raise the total number of prints
exhibited to 262.

The other shows the work of the well-known Dutch
painter and etcher, Carel Storm van 'sGravesande, in a
fairly representative collection of etchings, dry points, and
drawings, from his earliest attempts with the etching
needle and burin to relatively recent plates, numbering
about 130, and 14 drawings. They give abundant evidence
of an increasing sureness and power, in the handling of

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various methods, as well as of a pervading truth in the
rendering of water effects, such as has rarely been achieved
by modern etchers. The aim of his art has been, by a
thoroughly realistic, yet profoundly imaginative interpreta-
tion of the characteristic features of Dutch scenery, to raise,
in a modest way, an enduring monument to the beauty of
his native land.

The Division has supplied during the year to 14 govern-
mental departments, 40 educational institutions, and 10 art
classes 18,493 photographs of paintings, sculpture and archi-
tecture, and three collections of prints to the American
Federation of Arts (Washington, D. C.) for exhibition
purposes.

The attendance on week days, Sundays, and holidays was
382 more than that of last year, an increase in service of
2,087 books, 782 periodicals, 27,270 photographs and en-
gravings, 14,682 stereoscopic views, and 250 lantern slides.

In the service of photographs to educational institutions,
governmental departments, and art classes there was an
increase of 689 photographs.

SEMITIC DIVISION
(From the report of Dr. Schapiro, in charge)

The attention of this Division during the past year has
been chiefly engaged by the two Deinard collections. The
main work consisted of preparing the books for binding,
cataloguing, and classifying.

About 2,800 volumes were delivered to the Bindery.
This included several hundred for lettering only. The
number of books and pamphlets of the two collections
already bound, lettered, and arranged, total over 10,000
volumes. In addition to these a considerable num-
ber of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic books, which were in
possession of the Library but had not yet been catalogued
and classified, were brought together and put in order.

Report of the Librarian of Congress 103

All of these books and pamphlets have been placed on the
shelves according to subjects and are ready for use. A
special title-catalogue giving the original title, name of
author, and imprint has been prepared. This catalogue,
though short, proved very useful, rendering invaluable
service for reference and research.

The cataloguing and classifying last year related mostly
to the Mishnah and Talmud literature. More than 800
books of the Collections were catalogued, and nearly 2,700
classified, following the scheme of classification elaborated
by this Division for the Hebrew collections.

The Hebrew collections were increased by a few hundred
very important Hebrew books relating to the Rabbinic
and Modern Hebrew literature, acquired by purchase.
Some of these books complete broken sets of the Deinard
collections.

The use of the collection is steadily growing. Statis-
tically it does not, of course, and never will, compare with
that of a "popular" collection in a municipal lending
library; but it includes already what in this Library is
especially courted a certain amount of "research" use by
visiting students or scholars; and the issue to institutions
outside of Washington under our system of inter-library
loans of unusual works (e. g. in Philology, Philosophy, and
Talmudic Law) required for serious investigation. The
number of Semitic collections in this country is not great,
and such as exist are in a few centers. To supplement them,
and to reach scholars distant from them, will be a valuable
opportunity for a national service by this, as it has proved
by other, Divisions of the Library.

A list of Hebrew books relating to medicine, included
in the Hebrew collections, was prepared for the Library of
the Surgeon General. Upon request duplicates are being
sent to the Surgeon General's Office.

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A request for Arabic books came from the Department of
Agriculture. In connection with its experiments on certain
oriental industrial plants to be introduced in this country,
this Department has asked to put at the disposal of its
assistants the Arabic literature bearing on this subject.
This request was complied with and in amplification of it
a number of desiderata were ordered.

There has also been a notable demand for Yiddish books.
The Washington Alliance of Jewish Women applied for
Yiddish books in behalf of immigrant boys and girls of one
of its charitable institutions, who for the time being are able
to read Yiddish only. In order to expedite this matter, the
Librarian approved the suggestion made to forward dupli-
cates, and particularly the second copy of copyrighted
Yiddish books, to the Public Library of the District. In
harmony with this suggestion, Yiddish books dealing espe-
cially with American History, American ideals, and subjects
in connection with good citizenship, are being forwarded to
the Public Library. These books are almost exclusively
published in the United States and nearly all of them are
copyrighted. According to reports, the Yiddish books trans-
ferred to the Public Library are in continuous circulation.

BINDING
(From the report of the Assistant in charge, Mr. Kimball)

The number of volumes bound was 29,505) as against

31,095 for the preceding year. Most of the work (28,324

volumes) was done in the Branch Bindery at the Library.

Of the total, 8,026 volumes were bound in leather.

Binding male- For practically all of the work, either "acid-free," pyro-

tfafr u^ * ^ gallol-tanned goatskin or the best library buckram has been

used. The "calendered duck," specified for newspapers and

large books, is, in effect, merely a heavier kind of buckram.

Specifications for the buckram appear on page 19 of the

"Proposals for material for the public printing and binding"

Report of the Librarian of Congress 105

issued by the Government Printing Office, April 15, 1915;
and further information is given in the "Standard method
for testing book cloths" issued by the Bureau of Standards.
On pages 1 9-2 1 of the former publication is given information
regarding the requirements for leathers.

The preparation and recommendation of binding for the
Library, originating with so many persons in the Divisions,
have not always been uniform in plan; but as the work has
passed through this Division, the style of binding assigned
has been considered from the following points of view:

Buckram is considered more desirable than leather for
economy, or for books not subject to excessive wear. Leather
alone is admissible for the strongest and best binding known ;
that is, for the flexibly sewn or " tight-back" binding; and it
probably resists the effects of frequent handling better than
any cloth material.

Accordingly, buckram is indicated for (i) books of ordi-
nary size and smaller; (2) little- used books generally without
regard to size ; (3) books, the use of which, although extensive,
is short-lived books replaced by new editions, annually, and
so forth ; (4) publications, the paper of which will soon wear
out or disintegrate in any binding.

Heavy bindings in buckram have been laced in the boards
and reinforced with an inner cloth joint, the same as leather
bindings.

A leather binding is indicated for (i) such works of refer-
ence as are "working tools" of the Library or of its readers;
(2) extra heavy or large books, such as include even in an
ordinary degree the elements of merit and permanency as
regards edition, author, use; (3) illustrated works, fine and
early editions, book rarities, and other exceptional books,
for reasons of sentiment or utility.

The bindings which have been brought forward for "rush"
work have consisted often of material requiring the strongest
binding, such as the "working tools" of a Division. Rush

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work and enduring work are incompatible, since the book
needs time for drying and seasoning at the various stages
of the binding. In the end, time otherwise spent in rebind-
ing is saved by allowing sufficient time for the first binding.
In addition to the binding, 456 books were repaired,
without rebinding, as against 441 for the preceding year;
22,719 lines of extra lettering done, apart from the binding,
as against 8,831; 731 dummies made, as against 352. A
large number of minor repairs were made of which no
account is taken.

CATALOGUING
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Mattel)

The total number of volumes catalogued was 99,860, of
which 72,539 were new accessions, 27,321 recatalogued.
The decrease, as against last year, of 3,000 volumes is offset
in part by an increase of 1,000 in the number of new titles
sent to the printer, and but for the loss of the service of
some of our most experienced cataloguers through illness
or by detail to other divisions, amounting in all to about
23 months' time, there would have been a corresponding
increase.

About half of the number of volumes recatalogued belong
to various sections of Literature chiefly English, German,
and Italian. The remainder represent additions to all
classes; they come from the distribution into the new classi-
fication of the old form classes (chapters 33-42 and other
remainders) which is still in progress.

By transfer from other libraries and through the Smith-
sonian and Document Divisions there has been a marked
increase in the receipt of masses of minor publications,
unbound material, announcements, programs, lists, state-
ments, etc., of societies, universities, schools, and other
institutions, departments of government, etc., briefs and
other records of law cases, separates of periodical articles of

Report of the Librarian of Congress 107

varying degrees of value. Some of this material is noted in
scientific bibliographies and indexes and is of interest to
investigators. Little headway can be made in attempting
to treat it regularly, cataloguing and shelf listing each item
individually. By a method of collective entry by means of
which it can be brought out under (corporate) author
and under subjects in the catalogues, and shelf listed and
marked, it is made fairly accessible. The method has not
been in use long enough to affect the statistics of the past
year, but long enough to promise appreciable results, and it
will be extended to other groups besides the classes of pub-
lications covered by the specimens subjoined.

International harvester company of New Jersey, defendant.

(United States, plaintiff)
Action brought under the Sherman antitrust law of 1890.

Briefs and other records in this case, 1912-
not separately listed or cataloged are to be found on shelf:
HD278o.I6

i. Trusts, Industrial Law. 2. Harvesting machinery, i. United
States, plaintiff.

CA 15-117 Unrev'd
Library of Congress HD278o.I 6

Elerding, Edward H plaintiff-in-error .

(Illinois, defendanl-in-error)

Action brought under the Women's ten hour law of 1911.

Briefs and other records in this case, 1911-
not separately listed or cataloged are to be found on shelf:
HD6o64.Es

i. Hours of labor. 2. Woman Employment Illinois, i. Illinois,
defendant-in-error. n. Title: Women's ten hour law of 1911. m. Title:
Ten hour law.

CA 15-118 Unrev'd
Libraiy of Congress HD6o64.Es

London and Middlesex archaeological society.

Miscellaneous printed matter published by this body is clas-
sified in

DA6 7S
.L8 4 8

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Neuchatel. Universite.

Programs (with or without dissertations), reports, announce-
ments, miscellaneous serial lists, and occasional publications
that have not been separately listed or cataloged are to be found
on Shelf:

LF 5001

.C 99

University and school publications to be in part regularly cataloged later.

CA 15-1

These, however, are small economies and will not affect
materially a condition which, necessarily impairs progress
with our recataloguing and reclassification and the disposi-
tion generally of the arrears. This condition is the work
imposed upon the Catalogue Division in connection with the
Card distribution. It affects more or less every person in
the Division, and in ways impossible to express statistically.
Work purely or largely for the information of subscribers to
the cards, or to accommodate cooperating libraries, much of
which does not even indirectly benefit our catalogue, is done
daily by the cataloguers, revisers, and proofreaders in con-
nection with their work for the Library proper.

CLASSIFICATION
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Perley)

The number of volumes classified during the fiscal year
1914-15 was 101,095, f which 76,739 were new accessions
and 24,356 were reclassified, including 5,785 transfers. The
number of volumes shelf listed was 88,984, of which 70,413
were new accessions.

For the year preceding, the number of volumes classified
was 102,664, f which 80,775 were new accessions and
21,889 were reclassified, the number shelf listed being
9 I 359- The statistics by classes are given below.

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109

Volumes and pamphlets

Cards

Acces-
sions

Reclas-
sified

Total

A: Polygraphy (collections,
encyclopedias, etc.)-

2,191

597
697

2,528
443

448

4.719
1,040
1,145
242
5,582
7,280
1,163

14, 201
5,070
6,158

1,733
2,277

14, 2IO
2,176
4,622
2,268
3,500
5,742
I, 156

742

3,906

Stack lists:
Printed 33,49i
Preliminary. *67,3g6

Shelf lists:
Printed 41, 861

C: History (auxiliary sciences) .
CS - Genealogy. . .

D: History (except America). .

4,247
S.76
1,003
12,417
4.658
5,984

1,335
1,574
160
1,784
412
174

G: Geography; Anthropology..

M: Music literature (reported

2. 114

5,883
1,655
4,361
2,193
3,483
5, 661

I, IOI

736

22
3,729

163

8,327
521
261
75
17
81
55
6
30
177

P: Literature and language
PZ- Fiction

R - Medicine

S' Agriculture

T - Technology

X: Classification undetermined

Deinard collection (Hebraica,

7'4I3

18,571

88, 984

2,700
495
5,785
3,131

Chapter 38: Literary history. ..

495

5,785

76, 739

24.356

101,095

* Estimated.

The reclassified portion of the Library now contains in
round numbers 1,457,500 volumes, distributed as follows:
Class A (Polygraphy), 82,500; B-BJ (Philosophy), 15,000;
C-D (History, exclusive of America), 128,500; E-F (Amer-
ica), 113,000; G .(Geography), 25,000; H-J (Social and
political sciences), 342,500; L (Education), 62,000; M
(Music), 27,000; N (Fine arts), 35,000; P (Language and
literature), 124,500; PZ (Fiction in English), 55,000;

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Q (Science), 140,500; R (Medicine), 49,000; S (Agriculture),
53,500; T (Technology), 93,500; U (Military science),
18,500; V (Naval science), 16,000; Z (Bibliography), 76,000;
Incunabula, etc., 500.

While the total output in volumes classified is somewhat
less than in previous years, this is accounted for by the
changed conditions brought about by the European war.
In nearly every month this has caused a considerable de-
crease in the classified accessions, in December alone
amounting to 2,300 volumes.

The decrease in accessions has permitted more time to be
spent upon reclassification, and a substantial gain has been
made in this part of the work. This, however, does not bal-
ance the decrease in classified accessions as the material is
much more difficult to handle.

A special feature of the year's work has been the prepara-
tion of classification schedules for printing. The schemes
for PN, PR, PS, PZ: General literature, English and Ameri-
can literature, Fiction in English and Juvenile literature,
have already been printed. The historical classes C,
Sciences auxiliary to history, and D, Foreign history except
American, have been sent to the printer. With classes E
and F, American history, already printed, this will complete
the group of History except the subclass CN, Epigraphy,
which it has been thought advisable to defer until the com-
pletion of PA, Classical philology and literature.

Besides these large classes there have also been prepared
for printing subclasses GR and GT, Folk-lore and Manners
and customs (completing the group of subjects in Class G) ,
and HT, Social groups, including such topics as Cities, Race
relations, Slavery, etc., and completing the Social sciences
in Class H. Class A, Polygraphy, has also been sent to the
printer as a new edition, slightly revised.

In the work of reclassification during the past year an im-
portant feature has been the classification of Spanish and

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Portuguese literature by Dr. Konig and Mr. Jones. With
French and Italian literature already completed it is planned,
during the coming year, to print the classification schedules
for the entire group of Romance literature as subclass PQ.
Hungarian literature, of which the Library has a fairly large
collection, has been classified by Dr. Konig and Mr. Kloss,
and the small but difficult class of Pali literature has been
classified by Dr. Konig.

A large part of the time of the classifiers during the past
year has been devoted to the work of eliminating as far as
possible the remnants of chapters in the old classification.
In this work we have succeeded in reclassif ying all of chapter
24, International law, and nearly all of the social and politi-
cal sciences of chapters 25 and 27. In the old classes of
Biography, everything has been reclassified except such books
as needed to be considered in classes not yet undertaken by
the new classification, such as Religion and Classical, Scan-
dinavian and Dutch literature. In the very large and
heterogeneous collections of collected works, essays, letters,
and miscellanies (chapters 36, 40, and 41) everything has
been reclassified which fell within the scope of the new classi-
fication in its present state of development. In going over
this material, notes were made of all the works coming
within the range of special literatures yet to be scheduled,
which will much facilitate their reclassification when ready
to be undertaken. These lists have already proved their
utility in the reclassification of Spanish literature.

Another classification undertaking not strictly within the
field of the Classification Section, but of interest in this con-
nection, is the preliminary classification of the Toner collec-
tion, undertaken by assistants in the Reading Room service.
This collection which is especially rich in Americana has been
arranged by the Class letters, A to Z, according to the general
principles of the new classification and is thus rendered much
more available for special research. Before the end of the

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calendar year it is hoped that the Americana at least may be
definitely classified by members of the regular classifying
staff.

For the coming year it is hoped that the large collections
of Classical literature may be reclassified and further reduc-
tions made in the still substantial remnants of the literary
classes of the old classification.

CARD DIVISION
(From the report of the Chief, Mr. Hastings)

During the year the number of subscribers to the printed
cards has increased from 1,986 to 2,120.

The cash sale of cards, including subscriptions to proof
sheets, amounted to $59,379.64, an increase of about 8>
per cent over the cash sales of 1913-14. The increase in
the value of cards shipped was over 12 per cent.

The sale of cards to the libraries of the departments of
the United States government, paid for by transfer of cred-
its, amounted to $2,103.43.

Cards for about 35,000 different titles were added to the
stock during the year, including about 5,000 cards printed
for libraries in the District of Columbia and about 2,500
printed for other cooperating libraries.

The whole number of different titles now represented in
the stock is approximately 657,000, including about 37,000
unrevised cards not included in the depository sets. The
average stock of each card is estimated at 70, making the
total number of cards in stock about 46,000,000.

No new depository sets have been assigned during the
year. The depository set located in the Public Library,
New South Wales, has been given up. The proof-sheet de-
pository set at the St. Paul Public Library was destroyed
by fire. The depository libraries now number 49.

The full list of depositories is given below, the proof-
sheet depositories being distinguished by asterisks:

Report of the Librarian of Congress 113

The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Me.

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brown University Library, Providence, R. I.

Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, N. Y.

California State Library, Sacramento, Cal.

California University Library, Berkeley, Cal.

Chicago University Library, Chicago, 111.

Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

Columbia University Library, New York City.

Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Conn.

^Cornell University Library, Ithica, N. Y.

*Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, N. H.

Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Mass.

Illinois University Library, Urbana, 111.

Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Ind.

Institut International de Bibliographic, Brussels, Belgium.

Iowa State University Library, Iowa City, Iowa.

John Crerar Library, Chicago, 111.

Johns Hopkins University Library, Baltimore, Md.

Kansas State Historical Society Library, Topeka, Kans.

*Kyoto University Library, Kyoto, Japan.

*Leland Stanford Jr. University Library, Stanford University, CaL

*Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Cal.

Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ky.

McGill University Library, Montreal, Canada.

Massachusetts State Library, Boston, Mass.

Michigan University Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Minnesota University Library, Minneapolis, Minn.

*Missouri University Library, Columbia, Mo.

Nebraska University Library, Lincoln, Nebr.

New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, La.

New York Public Library, New York City.

New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.

Northwestern University Library, Evanston, 111.

Pennsylvania University Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

*Philippines Library, Manila, P. I.

Pittsburgh Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J.

St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Mo.

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Wash.

Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N. Y.

Texas University Library, Austin, Tex.

Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va.

*Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Conn.

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Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wis.
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.

A partial depository set (dictionary) covering Technology
and portions of Science has been assigned to the Library of
the Patent Office. The full list of libraries of the United
States government now having partial depository sets is
as follows, dictionary sets being distinguished by asterisks:

Army War College

Biological Survey

*Bureau of Education

Bureau of Entomology

Bureau of Fisheries

*Bureau of Labor Statistics

*Bureau of Mines

Bureau ofi Rolls and Library (State Department)

Bureau of Science (Manila, P. I.)

*Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

Bureau of the Census

Bureau of Trade Relations

*Children's Bureau

Civil Service Commission

Coast and Geodetic Survey

Coast Artillery School

*Department of Agriculture

Department of Justice

Department of the Interior, Law Division

Engineer School

Frankford Arsenal

*Geological Survey

Government Hospital for the Insane

Hydrographic Office

Interstate Commerce Commission

Military Academy, West Point

Mississippi River Commission

*National Bureau of Standards

Naval Academy

Naval Observatory

Naval War College

Navy General Board

Navy Medical School

Pan American Union

* Patent Office

Supervising Architect's Office

Treasury Department

War Department

Weather Bureau

Report of the Librarian of Congress 115

Although the Library of Congress has never carried in
stock cards in the " index" size (5 x 12/4 cm.), cards of this
size for publications of the United States Department of
Agriculture have been printed since 1906 for the Library of
the Department of Agriculture and have been distributed
to libraries of " land grant" agricultural colleges and experi-
ment stations. The space available for the entry on the
small card was so limited that, in numerous cases, the entry
had to be abbreviated or extended to another card. The
printing of two editions of the card added greatly to the cost
of printing and distributing. It was decided to discon-
tinue, on December 31, 1914, the printing of the smaller
cards. To induce libraries of agricultural colleges and ex-
periment stations to exchange their sets in the index size for
sets in the standard size, sets in the latter size, arranged
ready for use, are supplied in exchange for sets in the index
size at a low rate, the cost of the entire set to December, 1914,
being $89.64. Although the sets to be sent out in exchange
were not completed until June, numerous libraries have
already made the exchange.

Considerable work has been done in revising, classifying,
and arranging the blanks and forms used in the Division.

The work of preparing the exhibit of the Library for the
Panama Pacific Exposition was assigned to this Division.
Although there was a separate appropriation for the exhibit,
most of the administrative work and other items involving
special skill were unavoidably handled by assistants on the
card-index roll, with the result that the regular work of these
assistants was considerably retarded.

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PUBLICATIONS

(From the report of the Chief of the Order and Publications Division

Mr. Ashley)

The following table exhibits the comparative statistics of
the distribution of publications of the Library for the past
three fiscal years:

1912-13

1913-14

1914-15

New publications

a -}A

a T O

&26

Reprints

Administrative and special distribu-
tion through the Library of Congress. .
Distribution through the office of the
Superintendent of Documents . . .

3,830

33, O04

4,929
26, 3^3

3,606
31, 131

Distribution through the Bureau of In-
ternational Exchanges

7. CXI

4, 80?

I, 760

Total number of publications
distributed . . .

A3. O7 C

36, 177

36, 407

Publication correspondence

1,668

I. /i /in

I, 2O3

Envelopes addressed for circulars

4, 660

3, 803

3,881;

Sold by the Superintendent of Docu-
ments (pieces) . .

C TO. 320

c 10, 422

c IO, 63O

Received by the Superintendent of
Documents for sales

$1, 841.

$1, <;67. QO

$1,693.25

> Includes separate numbers of Subject headings and State publications (monthly list).
& Includes separate numbers of State publications (monthly list).
c Includes copyright publications.

The completion last year of the series of separate numbers
of the List of subject headings accounts for the decrease in
the number of new publications from 30 to 25. The num-
ber of pieces distributed shows a slight increase, however,
although the distribution to foreign libraries has been sus-
pended for the most part because of the war in Europe.

Our supplementary mailing list for the distribution of the
Annual Report (our largest edition) was carefully revised

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from the manuscript copy of "Public, Society and School
Libraries" since issued by the Bureau of Education as Bulle-
tin, 1915, no. 25.

The mailing list for the "Monthly list of State Publica-
tions" shows a steady increase, evidence of the value and
widening sphere of usefulness of this publication.

The increase in the number of Legislative Reference . li-
braries and the widening recognition received by this class
-of libraries as a necessary adjunct of legislature of a mod-
ern state has led us to add them as a new class to our dis-
tribution list, to receive especially our printed bibliographic
publications.

The publications of the Library during the past year
have been as follows :
Administrative :

Report of the Librarian of Congress for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1914. 1914. 216 p. Plates. . 25
cm. Cloth, 40 cents.
Library of Congress publications issued since 1897.

Jan., 1915. 50 p. 20 cm.
Information for readers in the main Reading Room.

1915. 14 p. Plate. 19^ cm.
Rules and practice governing the use and issue of books.

1915. 16 p. 13 cm.
List of books in embossed type in the Reading Room

for the Blind. 1914, 50 p. cm.
Bibliography Division :

List of references on Europe and international politics
in relation to the present issues; comp. under the
direction of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer.

1914. 144 p. 25^ cm. Paper, 15 cents.

List of references on prison labor; comp. under the
direction of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer.

1915. 74 p. 25% cm. Paper, i o cents.

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Reprints:

Select list of references on cost of living and prices.

1910. 107 p. 25X cm. Paper, 15 cents.
List of works relating to deep waterways from the Great

Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean . . . 1908. 59 p.

25 X cm. Paper, 10 cents.
List of discussions of the fourteenth and fifteenth

amendments, with special reference to negro suffrage.

1906. i8p. 25^ cm. Paper, i o cents.
Select list of references on the initiative, referendum

and recall. 1912. 102 p. 25^ cm. Paper, 15

cents.
Select list of references on parcels post. 1911. 39 p.

25^ cm - Paper, 10 cents.
A list of books on railroads in their relation to the

Government and the public ... 2d issue. 1907.

131 p. 25^ cm - Paper, 20 cents.

A list of books relating to trusts. 3d ed. with supple-
mentary list. 1907. 93 p. 27^ cm - Paper, 25

cents.
Catalogue Division:

Class P. Language and Literature.

Literature PN General, PR English, PS American, PZ
Fiction in English and Juvenile literature. 1915.
273 p. 26cm. Paper, 15 cents.
Class Q. Science. 2d- issue. 1913. 196 p. 26 cm.

Paper, 25 cents.
Division of Documents :

Monthly list of state publications. May-Dec., 1914;

Jan.-Apr., 1915. Paper, 50 cents a year.

Index and title-page for the year 1913.

Law Library:

Guide to the law and legal literature of Spain ; prepared

under the direction of E. M. Borchard, Law Librarian.

By Thomas W. Palmer, jr. 1915. 174 p. 27 cm.

Cloth, 50 cents.

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Division of Manuscripts :

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.
Edited from the original records in the Library of
Congress, v. 22-23. 1782. 1914. 27 cm. Cloth,
$1.00 each vol.

Calendar of the correspondence of George Washington
with the officers; prepared by J. C. Fitzpatrick. 4 v.
2865 p. 1915. 27 cm. Cloth, $4.00 per set.
Music Division:

Catalogue of first editions of Stephen C. Foster; by
Walter R. Whittlesey and O. G. Sonneck, Chief of the
Division of Music. 1915. 79 p. 25^ cm. Cloth,
. 40 cents.
Order Division :

Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher collection of In-
cunabula; comp. by F. W. Ashley, Chief of the Order
Division. 1915. 329 p. 27 cm. Cloth, $1.50.
Five of the new publications listed above were still in
press on June 30, 1915, though all of them have since been
issued. The distribution statistics for these five will be
included, properly, in the report for 191516.

Among the comments upon the year's issues were the
following regarding the "Calendar of the correspondence of
George Washington with the Officers" 4 v. : From the
American historical review, Vol. xx, No. 4, July, 1915:

In 1906 the Library of Congress issued a " Calendar of the correspond-
ence of George Washington with the Continental Congress, ' ' in one
volume, which included the correspondence of Washington with
the President of Congress, with committees, and with individual
members of Congress. The present calendar (which is No. 2 of the
calendars of the Washington manuscripts and prepared by the same
hand) is rather broader in scope than its title would indicate, for it
includes not only Washington's correspondence with military and
naval officers of every rank of the continental and state troops and
with French auxiliaries, but also his correspondence with foreign
ministers and agents and with British officers. On the other hand,
his correspondence with the governors and civil authorities of the
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states (another important part of the Washington papers) has not
been included.

The basis of the calendar, which properly begins with Washington 's
assumption of command in June, 1775, and closes with his resignation
of his commission in December, 1783 (a few papers of later date have
been included for the sake of completeness), is the series of drafts of
Washington's letters, although several other series of manuscripts
have been drawn upon.

The plan of the calendar is the same as that of the previous volume
and is sufficiently familiar to require no elucidation. One question
concerning enclosures may, however, be raised: When a letter is an
enclosure the calendar so records it, but it does not show what enclos-
ures any given letter contained. This information is often of impor-
tance and can be obtained only with difficulty, if at all, after the letter
and its enclosures have been separated, inasmuch as the writers often
give but uncertain clues to the enclosures. The location of printed
texts is confined to Ford 's and Sparks 's editions of Washington 's Writ-
ings and Sparks's Letters to Washington.

The index which occupies the whole of volume iv, (pp. 2461-
2865), is in large measure analytical, but it must be understood that
any such compressed analysis is necessarily imperfect. It is helpful
but not absolute. One feature of the index volume calls for especial
commendation. A schedule of pages grouped in periods of six months,
which is repeated at the foot of each two opposite pages of the index,
enables the searcher to determine at a glance the approximate chrono-
logical place of any given reference.

Deficiencies in the execution of such a calendar as this can be dis-
covered only after putting it to prolonged and manifold uses, but it
may safely be presumed that these volumes will be found to have
been done with the same accuracy and thoroughness that characterized
Mr. Fitzpatrick's first calendar of the series ...

From Mr. Worthington C. Ford of the Massachusetts
historical society, Boston, Mass., in a letter dated May 3,

... a splendid piece of work and one which lays us all under great
obligations to the Library for making thus accessible a part of its
riches. I speak not only thus generally but also of the quality of
the calendaring, for it seems to me balanced, moderate, and therefore
useful, not sinning either on the side of too diffuse an enumeration
of petty details or on the side of omission.

DIVISION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY
(From the report of the Chief Bibliographer, Mr. Meyer.)

A comparison with the previous year discloses a decrease
in the number of questions handled by this Division for
Members of Congress, owing of course to the establishment

Report of the Librarian of Congress 121

of the Legislative reference division. A line of demarca-
tion between the activities of the two divisions was readily
determined. All questions from members of Congress
growing out of their official duties or relating to legislation
which were received in this Division were at once referred
to the Legislative reference division. On the other hand,
all questions received in the Legislative reference division
which did not relate to legislation were referred to this
Division through the usual channels. In this way a certain
balance was struck. The statistics, however, do not show
all the work done by the Division of Bibliography. In most
of the questions referred from this Division, and in many
others also, we were able to point out immediately sources of
information which we had noted, or to undertake such a
preliminary investigation into sources where it had not
already been done. This service does not appear in the
statistics, as no record is made beyond the cards which
were prepared and filed in our permanent catalogue for
future use. Lastly, copies of 69 of our typewritten or
duplicated reference lists, many of which were specially
brought down to date, were furnished to the Legislative
reference division.

The A. L. A. subject card catalogue which we began in
the previous year (1913-14) was brought to a state of working
completeness and has proved itself a great time saver in
answering questions coming from correspondents not near
large libraries. The catalogue represents the books selected
by the A. L. A. for purchase by the smaller libraries of the
country and gives us at once with the least expenditure of
time the information most likely to be available to the
correspondent. The cards are used over and over again
in all sorts of combinations to suit the inquiries. When
they have served their purpose, they are returned to the
catalogue. Each card has stamped across the left-hand
margin the letters A. L. A. so that it can not be confused

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with cards from other sources, and is recognized at once
as belonging to the A. L. A. subject catalogue.

The typewritten lists compiled numbered 206, with a
total of 1,094 sheets as against 162 lists with 868 sheets for
the previous year. Social and economic subjects far
outnumber all the rest, with historical subjects second.

Our regular printed lists published during the year num-
ber but three, "Water rights and the control of waters,"
" Europe and international politics in relation to the present
issues," and " Prison labor." Three others were prepared
for the press but the printing was postponed: " Child labor,"
"Industrial arbitration," and "Postal savings banks," 2d
edition.

The list on "Divorce" should really be included in the
above, as it received the same treatment as one of our reg-
ular lists and was issued in the same general style of type
and arrangement. It was printed for the use of the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary.

An unusual number of our shorter lists found their way
into print besides those published in ' 'Special Libraries."

A "List of general engineering indexes" was printed in
the first number of the "Bulletin of the Index office," Chi-
cago. It was originally prepared to serve as the basis of a
discussion on technical indexes before the Technological
section of the Special Libraries Association at the meeting
in this city in May, 1914, and I believe was the only fruit of
that meeting and discussion.

The "List of references on one chamber and two chamber
legislatures" was printed in the University of Oklahoma
Bulletin.

Three lists on "Roads and road making," on "National
aid to road building," and on "State aid to road building"
were published by the Joint Committee on Federal aid in
the construction of post roads in 63d Congress, 3d session,
House Doc. 1510.

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Finally, the Legislative Reference Division printed the
"List of references on the development of the Russian mer-
cantile marine, including subsidies," in the document on
"Foreign legislation on the merchant marine."

Some of our older lists were reprinted.

Our cooperative work has developed normally so far as
our relations with outside libraries are concerned. We pre-
pared four lists for the duplicating machine and printed six
lists in "Special Libraries." This was all the copy "Special
Libraries" could take. We also sent copies of 38 of our
typewritten lists to the Public affairs information service.
When I say that the cooperative work has developed nor-
mally I mean that it has developed within the limits of our
abilities. It could easily grow beyond these and over-
whelm us completely. Our lists are in greater demand than
ever, especially since the organization of the Public affairs
information service. The Service affords us a means of
giving the lists a wider distribution.

Our cooperative work with the libraries in the District of
Columbia, most of which are governmental, has had, I should
say, more than normal growth. Through the District of
Columbia library association this cooperation is being de-
veloped in every possible way, and we are rapidly extending
the number of libraries who are actively interested in giving
information on their own special topics. The most impor-
tant single undertaking during the year was the Directory
of Sources of Information in the District of Columbia, copy
for which is still in active preparation.

SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT

(The following report is submitted by the Custodian of the Deposit,
Mr. Brockett)

The existing conditions in Europe have interfered to
some extent with the receipt of publications which have
been coming for many years in exchange; i. e., they have
been received later than usual, and in many cases the insti-

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tutions and societies abroad are holding the sets and series
until it will be safe to transmit them. Also, from a publi-
cation point of view, for economical reasons, only limited
editions with fewer pages could be issued, which gives a
special value to those received.

The publications from the Smithsonian Library for the
Deposit have been transmitted each day as received, and
numbered 24,713 pieces, as follows: 3,043 volumes; 1,179
parts of volumes; 1,763 pamphlets, 17,410 periodicals, 594
charts and 724 parts of serials to complete sets.

Complete sets of inaugural dissertations and academic
publications from 12 universities and technical high schools
from all parts of the world were received, and are included
in the above count.

Notwithstanding the restricted sendings from Europe
there has been no cessation of efforts to secure missing parts,
and many have been received. All of the 387 want cards
for the series searched in the Library of Congress were
considered and some action taken on each at the Smith-
sonian Institution, with the result that 82 sets of publica-
tions of scientific societies and learned institutions in the
Smithsonian Division were entirely or partially completed,
by the supplying of 460 parts; in the same way 254 parts of
48 sets were supplied to the Periodical Division, and 10
parts of 4 sets were supplied to the Order Division.

Among the more important of these series secured to com-
plete sets in the Smithsonian Deposit may be cited the
following :

Australia:

Sydney, New South Wales. Royal Anthropological Society of

Australasia. Science of Man.
Belgium:

Brussels. Academic Royale de Belgique. Bulletin, Classe des
lettres.

Association des industriels de Belgique pour 1 'etude et la
propagation des engins et m6sures propres a preserver les
ouvriers des accidents du travail. Rapport.
St. Nicolas. Cercle archeologique du pays de Waes. Annales.

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England :

London. Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review.
Birmingham. Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical

Society. Report.
France :

Nice. Association Provinciale des architectes francais. Bulletin.
Paris. Societe francaise de physique. Resume des communi-
cations.
Germany :

Berlin. Berliner Missionsgesellschaft. Berliner Missionsberichte.

Deutscher Fischerei-Verein. Zeitschrift fuer Fischerei.
Darmstadt. Historischer Verein fuer das Grossherzogthum Hessen .

Quartalblatter.
Dresden. K. Oeffentliche Bibliothek. Papyrus. Fragment aus

der Kgl. Off. Bibliothek zu Dresden.

Munich. K. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.-Abhand-
lungen; Denkschriften ; Gelehrte Anzeiger; Sitzungsberichte.
India:

Calcutta. Medical and Sanitary Departments of India. Scientific
Memoirs by the Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Depart-
ments.
Italy :

Florence. Societa Botanica Italiana. Bullettino.
Siam:

Bangkok. Siam Society. Journal.
United States:

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University, Museum of Comparative

Zoology. Annual Report.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati Society of Natural History.

Journal.

New York City, N. Y. American Museum of Natural History.
Anthropological Papers. Bulletin.

In connection with the clearing up of the loan records
in the Library of Congress the Smithsonian Division has
assisted the Reading Room in identifying the older charges
of books loaned to the Institution from the Library of
Congress, including those in the Smithsonian Deposit.

Among the publications turned over by the Patent
Office to the Library of Congress during the past fiscal
year were found about 300 parts which fitted into and
immediately preceded those in the Smithsonian series. It
is not improbable that these earlier numbers were depos-
ited in the Patent Office prior to the establishment of the
Institution.

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The part of the deposit containing publications of the
learned institutions and scientific societies has been cared
for in the Smithsonian Division under the supervision of
Mr. Francis H. Parsons. In connection with this work,
especial consideration has been given to preparation of
want lists for American serials and publications coming
from countries that are at present neutral. The work of
assembling the parts published through 1914 and the
preparation of volumes for binding resulted in 1,296 vol-
umes completed and 2,063 volumes bound. The time of the
staff has also been largely occupied in supplying publica-
tions to readers, from whom 10,475 requests were received.

A large number of publications deposited by the Smith-
sonian Institution are not publications of societies, and these
are in the general classification. No separate statement
regarding them is made, as they are included in the report
on the main collection.

Periodicals to the number of 17,410 separate parts were
forwarded, and 42 new titles were added to the publica-
tions already received.

The documents presented to the Smithsonian Institution
and those that come in exchange for its own publications
have been forwarded, as in the past, to the Library of Con-
gress, without stamping and recording, and 4,675 parts were
sent in this way.

(The following additional report is submitted by Mr. F. H. Parsons,
in immediate charge of the Smithsonian Deposit.)

The European war has effected a change in the character of
the work of this Division during the year 1914-15.

We received early in the year several lots of "Wants"
which had been collected by our correspondents abroad, but
the war has rendered it practically impossible for the search
for our missing pieces to be continued at the places of publi-
cation ; consequently while we note omissions in our sets as
the cataloguing and binding are going forward, all active

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effort to procure them through the usual channels has been
suspended.

The American society serials and those of the neutral
countries have, been given more special attention with results
that are very gratifying.

Many of the foreign societies have suspended publication
or have reduced very materially the quantity issued; fre-
quently one notes in them apologies for possible errors, "as
the authors are either dead or with the colors." Journals
have omitted numbers entirely, or have published several
in one, thus completing a volume, often using as copy
manuscripts which they had on hand in place of the usual
new material.

Many sets, which the Periodical Division has heretofore
held in its reading room and later collated and bound,
have been transferred to the care of this Division, thus
increasing our work in answering calls for current articles,
and in preparation of the completed volumes for binding.

A large number of transfers from various governmental
sources have been searched, but while we obtain some
material needed, the percentage is small.

The number of volumes completed during the year was
1,296.

Among the volumes recently acquired and bound this year
are the following:

Paris:

Societe de 1 'histoire de 1 'art francais. Nouvelles archives de 1 'art
francais. 3 Ser. 1885-1906. 22 vols.

- Monographs. 20 vols.
Academic de France a Rome. Correspondance. 1665-1804. 18

vols.
Academic royale de peinture et de sculpture. Proces-verbaux.

1648-1793. 10 vols.
Jersey:

Societe Jersiaise. Publications. Actes des Etats de 1'lle de Jer-
sey. 1524-1790. 20 vols.
Calcutta:

Asiatic society of Bengal. Bibliotheca Indica. 150 late numbers.

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Shrewsbury:

Shropshire Parish Register Society. 19 vols.
Sunderland :

Durham, Northumberland Parish Register Society. 10 vols.

Two thousand and sixty-three volumes have been sent to
the bindery. This number could have been increased had
the bindery desired it; and material not immediately re-
quired has been held back, including many old volumes in
need of rebinding.

Very few long series have been bound ; in fact, the last three
requisitions average only about one and a half volumes to a
title. This increases proportionally the clerical work in
preparing titles and lettering.

READING ROOM FOR THE BLIND

READING ROOM The following table shows the additions during the year

FOR THE

BUND: of books, magazines, music scores, maps, and prints :

A ccessions

By act of Mar. 4, 1913:

Volumes 66

By purchase:

Volumes 368

Magazine subscriptions 17

By gift:

Volumes 89

Pamphlets 100

Magazine subscriptions 19

Magazines 41

By binding:

Volumes 4

By transfer:

Volumes 3

707
Miscellaneous accessions :

By purchase :

Writing guides 3

Cut maps 2

The collection of books, etc., in all types now comprises:

Volumes, embossed 2, 754

Volumes, ink 10

Music scores, embossed -. 184

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Music scores, ink 31

Magazines, embossed 27

Magazines, ink 10

Maps and plans, embossed. . . 154

Maps 2

Volume maps, embossed i

Volume prints, embossed i

3*74

The number of active readers was 233

The visitors during the year were:

Blind persons visiting room 598

Other persons visiting room 6, 849

Blind attendance at evening entertainments 723

Other attendance at evening entertainments 3, 100

Total J i, 321 2 9, 949

i Blind. 2 Sighted.

The activities of the Reading Room have markedly
increased in each detail of its service the number of readers
registered, the number of books issued, and the number of
inquiries answered. Increasingly the room is looked to as
a sort of bureau of information on matters pertaining to the
blind. The issue of embossed books to blind readers out-
side of the District, initiated several years ago, has been
limited to the states without libraries for the blind. But
even with this limitation the issue has grown beyond the
abilities of the one assistant provided by law, and in the
absence of additional provision this outside issue will
shortly be discontinued.

The Assistant in charge attended the International Con-
ference of the Blind in London June 18-25, I 9 I 4 and visited
various educational institutions for the blind in Great
Britain, Ireland, Holland, France, and Italy. The infor-
mation secured in this way has been invaluable in enabling
her to deal with inquiries received in the course of her work.

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PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION

The Library was represented by an exhibit consisting of:

1 . Photographs, including exterior of the Library, Reading
Room, Entrance hall, some of the principal rooms of the
Divisions, and some of the notable decorations.

2. A complete collection of the blanks and forms used in
the transaction of the work of the Library of Congress.

3. A complete collection of the publications of the Library
of Congress since 1897.

4. A collection of early and notable books relating to
California and voyages and explorations along the Pacific
coast.

5. Facsimiles of newspapers announcing notable events
in the development of the transportation facilities of the
country.

6. A collection of manuscripts relating to American
history with special reference to Spanish America.

7. A collection of early maps of California and the Pacific
coast and views of San Francisco.

8. A collection of prints selected from the copyright de
posits.

9. A selection of American and foreign music.

10. A collection of card catalogues as follows:

Dictionary and systematic catalogues of works on Bibliography.

Dictionary catalogue of works relating to Latin-American coun-
tries.

Miscellaneous catalogues illustrating the use of the printed cata-
logue cards of the Library of Congress.

11. A wall chart explanatory of the growth and distribu-
tion of American libraries.

The space available was but 900 square feet in the
Education Building. Through the skill and experience of
our representative, Mr. Hastings, however, this was so well
utilized that each item of our exhibit counted for its full
value. And the value itself particularly of the portion

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technical in character was enhanced by the zeal, intelli-
gence, and expert knowledge of the attendants who in suc-
cession had the charge and interpretation of it. I make the
more special note and acknowledgment of this because }he
allotment (only $4,000) being insufficient, these attendants
(members of our regular service) were obliged to meet
personally the entire expense of their transportation to and
from San Francisco and of residence there.

The following awards were received : Panama-Pacific

Exposition awards

Education, group 7, class 19. Collective exhibit. Medal of
honor.

Liberal Arts, group 30, class 108. Catalogue of Opera Librettos.
Honorable mention.

Liberal Arts, group 31, class 112. Maps of California, etc. Hon-
orable mention.

Liberal Arts, group 31, class 113. Photographs of San Francisco
from 1846 to 1915. Honorable mention.

Liberal Arts, group 33, class 123. Photographic full-page repro-
duction of American newspapers illustrating progress in com-
munication and travel. Gold medal.

A silver medal was also awarded to the representative in charge
of the Exhibit.

Respectfully submitted

HERBERT PUTNAM

Librarian of Congress
The Honorable

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
The Honorable

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

OF THE LIBRARY BUILDING

AND GROUNDS

133

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LIBRARY
BUILDING AND GROUNDS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Washington, D. C., December 6, 1915

SIR: The death, on October 22, 1914, of Mr. Bernard R.
Green, who had charge of the construction of the building
and had been its Superintendent and Disbursing officer
since its completion (a period of nearly 18 years), neces-
sitated prompt measures to carry on uninterruptedly the
administrative and fiscal duties of the office.

Acting under an opinion of the Attorney General, to
whom the matter was referred by the President, the Librarian
designated Mr. Wade H. Rabbitt, Chief Clerk of the office,
as Special Disbursing Officer, and to attend to all other
duties of the office not specifically placed by law on the
Superintendent, pending the appointment of a successor
to the late Mr. Green.

Under special provision in the Deficiency Act approved
January 25, 1915, the Librarian was authorized to exercise
the powers and perform the duties of the Superintendent,
other than those of Disbursing officer, during the vacancy
in the office, and he continued to officiate thus until the
duties were taken up by the undersigned on April 23, last.

Under the regime described, the Library building service
was conducted during the fiscal year 1915. This service
included, as usual, the custody, care, and maintenance
of the building and its contents, operation of mechanical
plant, the procuring of Library and office equipment,
upkeep materials and supplies, and the disbursement of

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the funds appropriated for the Library and the Botanic
Garden. The extent and variety of the operations are
indicated generally in the tables which follow.

FUEL, LIGHTS, REPAIRS, AND MISCELLANEOUS SUPPLIES

Watch and housekeeping department:

Ice (489,293 pounds) $i, 386. 60

Painting in and about the building i, 499. oo

Painting (materials) 379. 51

Repairs (floors, windows, etc.) 973. 16

Washing towels 93. 9 1

Dry goods (cleaning cloths, etc.) 561. 46

Soap powders. 156. 23

Soaps 233. 42

Paper towels i, 023. 20

Housekeeping (brooms, buckets, brushes,

etc.) 539.75

Toilet supplies 174. oo

Miscellaneous supplies 1 177. 20

$7, 197. 44

Engineer department:

Mail and delivery service upkeep and re-
pair of motor vehicles 834. oo

Hardware and tools 161. 19

Repairs 315. 50

Plumbing supplies 387. 65

Removing refuse 143. 25

New high-power steam main 228. 89

Oils 35.41

Gas 13. 01

Miscellaneous supplies 88. 89

Repairs to roof

Sheet copper $873. 93

Miscellaneous materials 145. 20

Labor 980. 87

2, ooo. oo

- 4, 207. 79
Electrical department:

Lamps 858. 13

Miscellaneous supplies (condulets, holders,

shades, fixtures, wire, conduit, tape, etc.). 604. 03

Tools 12. oo

Repairs 43-99

Dynamotor (for call bells and buzzers) 58. 81

New lighting system, Periodical Reading

Room 626. 56

Changing lighting system in alcoves, Main

Reading Room 490. 94

Intercommunicating telephones 513. 68

3, 208. 14

Superintendent of Building and Grounds 137

Office:

General telephone service of Library (i cen-
tral station, 81 substations, and 6 trunk
lines) ................................... $i, 118. 09

Stationery ................................ 114. 54

Weighing scale .......................... . . 7. oo

Coin bag .................................. 16. 50

Car tickets ............................... 20. oo

Postage stamps (for foreign correspondence). 15. oo

Additional services. . . ..................... 4. oo

Express and freight charges ................ 4. 13

Travel .................................... 24. 50

Telegrams ........................... ..... i. 61

Numbering machines ...................... 17. 77

- $i, 343- J 4

Total expended .................................... 15, 956. 51

Unexpended balance ................................. 43-49

Appropriation ..................................... 16, ooo. oo

FURNITURE

Under this appropriation all miscellaneous furniture
equipment, including partitions, screens, shelving, and elec-
trical work pertaining thereto, was provided.

Adding machines ....................................... $511. 43

Photographic copying machine ........................... i, 280. oo

Duplicating machine .................................... 191. oo

Lighting fixtures, Reading Room tables .................. 100. oo

Typewriting machines and repairing ..................... i, 879. 41

Desk fans .............................................. 169. 40

Repairing and fitting of miscellaneous furniture (including

labor and materials) ................................... i, 208. 27

Book trucks ............................................ 2 16. oo

Miscellaneous furniture (including tables, desks, stands,

cases, hardware, etc.) ................................. i, 608. 71

Altering card-tray blocks ................................. 348. oo

Card-catalogue cases ..................................... i, 934. 37

Carpets and runners ..................................... 140. 54

Express and drayage ..................................... 4. 53

Partitions and screens ........................ .. ......... 150. oo

Window shades ........... ..... . ......................... 249. 63

Total expended ................................... 9, 991. 29

Unexpended balance ..................................... 8. 71

Appropriation ...... .............................. 10, ooo. oo

138 Report of the Librarian of Congress

The photographic copying machine which appears in the
foregoing table represents the largest expenditure for a
single piece of equipment purchased from the fund during
the year. The machine produces a photographic print 18
by 22 inches, or the full size of the ordinary newspaper page.

The photographic work has rapidly increased until the
two machines are now in use most of the time. The increase
in this work is largely from the Legislative Reference Divi-
sion of the Library.

The other items of expenditure shown in the tables do
not materially differ in class and kind from those usually
required.

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES

In addition to the appropriations for the Library and for
the Library Building and Grounds, this office is charged
with the disbursement of the appropriations for the United
States Botanic Garden and those placed under the control
of the Joint Committee on the Library.

The following table presents the several appropriations
accordingly disbursed during the fiscal year, and the corres-
ponding appropriations for the preceding and succeeding
years:

Superintendent of Building and Grounds 139

Object

Appropria-
tion, 1914

Appropria-
tion. 1915

Expendi-
tures, 1915

Appropria-
tion, 1916

Library and Copyright Office:

"$399,352. 27

&$437,634- 88

c $435, 804. 83

$442, 1 60. oo

Special and temporary service.
Contingent expenses

2,000.00
<*6, 804. 83

2,000.00
'7,300.65

1,919.30
/7, 269. 41

2,000.00

7,300.00

Increase of Library

90,000.00

fg^o, ooo. oo

90, ooo. oo

Purchase of law books. . . .
Purchase of periodicals. . .

3,000.00
5,000.00

3,000.00
5,000-00

/3, ooo. oo
5,000.00

3,000.00
5,000.00

Total, Library and
Copyright Office

506, 157. 10

544, 935. 53

542, 993. 54

549, 460. oo

Building and grounds:
Care and maintenance

77,325.00

So, 205. oo

76, 233. 74

79, 645. oo

Fuel, lights, etc

14, ooo. oo

1 6, ooo. oo

715,956.51

14, ooo. oo

IO, OOO. OO

/9, 991. 29

17,000.00

Book stack, southeast court . . .

*2, IO2. 38

Total, Building and grounds

103,427.38

106, 205. oo

102, 181. 54

110,645.00

Grand total

651, 140. 53

645, 175.08

660, 105. oo

Botanic Garden:
Salaries

16, 393. 75

16,393. 75

16,393.25

17,300.00

Improving garden

<9, 821.35

}S, 500. oo

"8, 498. 25

8,000.00

Improving buildings

6,000-00

47,315.35

"7,309. 64

6,000.00

Total, Botanic Garden

32,215.10

32, 209. 10

32,201.14

31,300.00

Repairs of paintings in the Capitol .
Marking historical places in Dis-
trict of Columbia

1,500-00

1,500.00

1,500-00
500.00

Including increase of $1,392.27 by sale of cards.

6 Including credits of $1,361.86 by sale of cards, and $113.02 yet to be credited.

c Including $128.74 outstanding indebtedness.

d Including increase of $4.83 by sale of photo duplications.

Including increase of $0.65 by sale of photo duplications.

/ Including unfilled orders.

9 Any unexpended balance to be available for succeeding year.

* Deposited in surplus fund of Treasury June 30, 1914.

' Including deficiency appropriation of $3,321.35 (act of Apr. 6, 1914).
i Including deficiency appropriation of $2,000 (act of Mar. 4, 1915).

* Including deficiency appropriation of $1,315.35 (act of Mar. 4, 1915).

' Including available balance from preceding year and additional appropriation of
$500; balance remaining after allowance of $600 for unfilled orders.
m Including $382 outstanding indebtedness.
* Including (4 outstanding for salary.

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Object of appropriation

Appropria-
tion, 1914

Appropria-
tion, 1915

Expendi-
tures, 1915

Appropria-
tion, 1916

Removing Botanic Garden fence

Portrait of the late Chief Justice
Fuller

Bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard
(intprpst arroiint)

e 1,286.67

Appropriation of previous year continued.

b Balance available from preceding year.

c Including balance available from preceding year and additional appropriation of

$800.

UNEXPENDED BALANCES

All known claims against the appropriations for the fiscal
year 1913 have been settled, including those paid on auditor's
certificates, and the unexpended balances have been depos-
ited to the credit of the surplus fund of the Treasury, in
amounts as follows :

Library:

Salaries $846. 48

Increase of Library .17

Contingent expenses 14-63

Special and temporary service 43. 41

$904. 69

Building and grounds:

Care and maintenance (salaries) 288. 30

Furniture 21. 12

Fuel, lights, etc 505. 86

Botanic Garden:

Salaries i. 50

Improving buildings 26. 85

Moving library of National Monetary Commission.

815. 28

28.35
493- 5

2, 241. 82

Superintendent of Building and Grounds 141

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS

Sales of public property were made during the year and

proceeds deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the
United States, as follows :

Old typewriters credited in part payment for new $102. 50

Old duplicating machine, similarly credited 10. oo

112. 50

Withheld under income-tax law, on account of salaries paid
during the calendar year 1914, and remitted to collector of
internal revenue 25. 56

VISITORS TO THE LIBRARY BUILDING

The number of persons who entered the building as visitors
or users of the Library were counted at the entrances, as
follows :

Date

9 a. 111. to
6 p. m.

6 p. m. to
10 p. m.

Maxi-
mum

Mini-
mum

Daily
average

Days

1914

July. .

20, 763

27, 4C2.

2, 78^

AA C

I, 774

August. ... .

27. T42

28, 27"?

3 -217

4.62

I. 081

September

3Q, IC7I

2S, 471

2, 906

72O

2, 168

October

40, 7 c8

24, C48

6, 02.2.

I, 060

2, IO7

November ....

24, 616

IO. QQ?

2, C44

I, 4x4

I, 821

December

22, 2.l6

16, 006

2, 780

402

I, 647

1915
January . .

?<;, 708

18, 066

2, 4O7

I, 243

I, 767

February

2.4, 088

20, t;i7

2, Q2I

I, 4.^1

I, O^O

March

"?6, I7Q

2J,. TOO

T., 288

I, ^26

I. Q4?

April

2C. 737

28, 312

4, ^c6

I, ?OO

2, 134

May

41, 660

26, 608

6, oio

I, "?00

2, 2(X

Tune. .

2.0, ?42

24, 060

2, 784

474

i,8;o

2.O

Total

42 ?. I7O

281, 380

262.

Total number for the year, 706,559.
Daily average, 363 days, 1,946.

142 Report of the Librarian of Congress

ROOF COVERING

The copper roof covering of the building, after about 20
years of service, evidences constant deterioration by increas-
ing numbers of small holes over practically its entire surface,
except the dome, with here and there sharp slits from i inch
to 2 feet in length, the latter generally in gutters and prob-
ably caused by temperature movements. The worst of the
resultant leaking, which threatened damage to the interior
of the building, and which in some places had already dis-
colored the walls, was stopped by patching with new sheet
copper and the application of paint through the use of the
$2,000 provided for the purpose.

Such repairs are proportionately expensive and can not
long suffice. The condition of the roof as a whole presents
a serious menace, and provision for a new covering is recom-
mended. An amount almost equal to the cost of genuine
tin roof covering painted both sides would be realized by the
sale of the old copper roof. The life of such a roof kept
painted, and with minor repairs, should be at least 40 years.

LIGHTING

The lighting of the building at night is giving some concern
in view of the fact that the modern incandescent lamp, while
economical in cost per candle power, is excessively bright,
and direct light therefrom is claimed by experts to be injuri-
ous. Most of the lamps in the building are now within
direct view. It is believed that the replacement of direct
lighting from exposed lamps by indirect or semi-indirect light-
ing, as far as piacticable, is advisable in order to lessen eye
strain and at the same time more effectively light the exhibits
and decorative art works. Examination shows that in most
of the rooms it would be practicable and comparatively
inexpensive to place lamps entirely out of direct view and at
the same time to secure efficient lighting of the rooms by
reflection from ceilings or through translucent bowl fixtures.

Superintendent of Building and Grounds 143

In order to determine with certainty the efficiency of the
above-described lighting scheme, and the advisability of
further extension, the Periodical Reading Room was
selected for trial. Indirect lighting fixtures equipped with
reflectors to direct all light to the ceiling, from which it is
reflected and diffused throughout the room, were purchased.
The necessary wiring and installation were done by the
building force. This room being in need of renovation, the
ceiling and walls were painted in light shades to make the
lighting more effective, and a new floor covering laid during
the early part of the present fiscal year. The new system
of lighting this room was put into use on September i of
this year.

The lighting of the books in the alcoves adjoining the
main reading room has been improved by the installation
of small lamps with reflectors of a special type to cut off
direct view of the lamps from the reading room.

PAINTING

A program of painting, as in previous years, was carried
on, as necessary to preserve the exterior and interior wood
and metal work. The sum available for painting, however,
is insufficient to repaint, during the present year, the walls
and ceilings of many rooms which have never been re-
painted and are now in great need of renovation.

TELEPHONES

The worn-out, intercommunicating telephone equipment
in the Copyright Office and in the Card Division, which had
been in service for about 15 years, was replaced by modern
apparatus, which should insure satisfactory service.

OLD BOILER AND ENGINE ROOMS

The central heating, lighting, and power plant has fur-
nished uninterrupted and reliable lighting and heating serv-
ice since 1911. Eight of the old boilers, several engines,

144 Report of the Librarian of Congress

generators, large pumps, etc., of the original building plant,
still in the building and entirely disconnected from the
present system and of no further use here, occupy spaces
which could well be utilized otherwise. This old apparatus
will be disposed of during the present year, and as soon as
practicable, provision should be made for special repairs and
renovation of these spaces and the old coal vaults to adapt
them to useful purposes.

APPROACHES

The east driveway, forming the roof of a few of the rooms
in which important moving machinery is located, leaks
badly, and special provision for waterproofing should be
made as soon as practicable.

So far as the funds available permit, the masonry work
of the west approaches, which shows many open joints and
leaks into the driveway underneath, will be pointed up
during the present year.

UTILIZATION OF CELLAR

The growing collections of the Library are necessitating
gradual utilization of the cellar, not originally designed for
such purpose. Four years ago the north curtain of the
cellar was fitted up and occupied by the collections of the
Music Division. Provision should now be made for similar
extension of other divisions into the cellar by refitting the
spaces to be occupied and the erection of metal shelving.
Respectfully submitted.

FRANK L,. AVERILL

Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds
The Honorable

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
The Honorable

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPENDICES

Page

Appendix la. Appropriations and expenditures (tables) 147

Ib. Appropriation acts, 1915-16 151

II. Report of the Register of Copyrights 157

III. Manuscripts and Broadsides: List of Accessions,

1914-15 201

I4S

APPENDIX IA
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, 1914-15

Appropriations

Expended

Unexpended

Library and Copyright Office:
Salaries
General

$264, 1 20 oo

$267. 1T.1 71

$382 29

Sunday

IO, OOO. OO

O, C&1. 2?

16. 7C

Special

2, OOO OO

I. OIO. 7O

80 70

Carrier service

960. oo

8?7. W

IO2. 67

Distribution of card
indexes

" 34, 074. 88

M, 764. 87

2IO OI

Legislative reference.
Copyright Office

25, ooo. oo

IO2, 580. OO

24,042.31

IO2, 4.IQ. ^6

957- 69

1 60. 64

Increase of Library
Purchase of books ....

90, ooo. oo

Purchase of period-
icals . . .

5, ooo. oo

Purchase of law books

c
?, ooo. oo

3, ooo. oo

Contingent expenses . . .

7, 300. 6s

7, 260. 41

71. 24

Total, Library and
Copyright

?44, Q3<. <?3

t;42, QQ7. ?4

I, 041. 09

"Appropriation includes credits $1,361.86 on account of sales of cards to Government
institutions and $113.02 yet to be credited.

6 Includes outstanding indebtedness.

c Exclusive of $2,000 to be expended by the marshal of the Supreme Court for new
books of reference for that body.

<* Includes credits 65 cents on account of sales of photo duplications to Government
institutions.

148

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Appropriations

Expended

Unexpended

BUILDING AND GROUNDS

Care and maintenance, includ-
ing Sunday service.

$80, 205. oo

$?6, 233 74.

$- , Q7i 26

Fuel, lights, and miscellane-
ous

1 6, ooo. oo

10 I?, 0^6. <I

4.-?. 40

Furniture and shelving

IO, OOO. OO

a O, OOI. 2Q

8. 71

Total, Building and
grounds

1 06, 205. oo

IO2, l8l. "(4.

4, O23. 46

Grand total

6<?i, 140. t;^

64,";, I7=c.o8

=;,Q6';.4<;

Bequest of Gertrude M. Hub-
bard (interest account)
Printing and binding (allot-
ment not appropriation)

& i, 902. 55
czoo, 583. 63

20O, 462. 10

i, 92. 55
"i- 53

Includes outstanding indebtedness.

6 Includes balance from preceding year in addition to appropriation of $800.
c Allotment includes credits of $583.63 on account of sales of cards to Government insti-
tutions; does not include $48.43 yet to be credited.

Appropriations and Expenditures 149

CONTINGENT EXPENSES IN DETAIL LIBRARY PROPER

Object of expenditure

Amount

Stationery supplies $4, 813. oo

Typewriter supplies 1 16. 30

Dies, presses, rubber stamps, and numbering machines. . . . 423. 37

Travel expenses 430. 47

Street car tickets 75. oo

Postage stamps and international postal cards (foreign cor-
respondence) 235. oo

Telegrams and long-distance telephone messages 126. 26

Transfer charges (expressage, etc.) 14-37

Post-office box rent July i, 1914, to June 30, 1915 ' 16. oo

Tools .74

Mail-bag repairs .50

Duplicator supplies 31. 35

Photostat paper and developing powders *97- 44

Photostat miscellaneous supplies 79. 61

Total 7, 269. 41

*$993-77 covered into the Treasury on account of sales of photo duplications.

APPENDIX Ib

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AS CON-
TAINED IN "AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL EXPENSES OF
THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE
30, 1916, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"

General administration : Librarian, $6,500; chief assistant
librarian, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian's secretary,
$1,800; clerks one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenogra-
phers and typewriters one $1,200, one $780; messenger,
$840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $540; junior
messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine,
$600; in all, $22,380.

Mail and delivery: Assistants one in charge, $1,500, one
$960, one $720; junior messenger, $420; in all, $3,600.

Order and accession : Chief of division, $2,500; assistants
one $1,500, one"$i,2oo, three at $960 each, two at $780 each,
two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420
each; in all, $12,260.

Catalogue, classfication, and shelf: Chief of divisiion,
$3,000; chief classifier, $2,000; assistants four at $1,800
each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at
$1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four
at $860 each, thirteen at $780 each, thirteen at $600 each,
four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in
all, $91,000.

Binding: Assistants one in charge $1,500, one $900;
junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,820.

Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants one
$1,500, two at $960 each, one $780; stenographer and type-
writer, $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,520.

Reading rooms (including evening service) and special
collections: Superintendent, $3,000; assistants two at
$1,800 each, five at $1,200 each (including one in room for
the blind), two at charging desk at $1,080 each, three at
$900 each, ten at $780 each, two at $600 each; stenographer
and typewriter, $960; attendants, Senate reading room, $900;

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152 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Representatives' reading room one $960, one $780; two in
cloakroom at $720 each, one in Toner Library $900, one in
Washingtonian Library $900, two for gallery and alcoves at
$540 each; telephone operator, $660; four junior messen-
gers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; evening
service, assistants five at $900 each, fifteen at $780 each,
two at $600 each; in all, $55,560.

Periodical (including evening service) : Chief of division,
$2,000; assistants chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at
$780 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; two junior
messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,060.

Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants one
$1,500, one $780; stenographer and typewriter, $900; junior
messenger, $420; in all, $6,600.

Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants chief
$1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.

Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants
one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $780; junior messenger,
$420; in all, $7,620.

Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants^-one $1,500,
one $1,000, two at $780 each; junior messenger, $420; in
all, $7,480.

Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants one $1,500,
two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840.

Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistant, $1,500;
messenger, $720; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,140.

Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; as-
sistants one $1,200, one $900, one $780; two junior mes-
sengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,220.

Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants two at $1,400
each, one $960, one $540, one for evening service, $1,500;
junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,220.

Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of Division, $3,000;
assistant, $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,920.

COPYRIGHT OFFICE: Register, $4,000; assistant register,
$3,000; clerks four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each,
seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at
$1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each, two
at $800 each, ten at $720 each, four at $600 each, two at "
$480 each; four junior messengers, at $360 each. Arrears,
special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $720;
junior messenger, $360; in all, $102,580.

Appropriation Acts 19 1 5-16 153

Legislative Reference: To enable the Librarian of Congress
to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make
available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations,
and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon
legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress
and Committees and Members thereof, $25,000.

DISTRIBUTION OF CARD INDEXES: For service in con-
nection with distribution of card indexes and other publica-
tions of the Library, including the following salaries now
authorized and being paid: Chief of division, $3,000; chief
assistant, $1,800; assistants one $1,600, three at $1,500
each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at
$1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; and for services of assist-
ants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piece-
work and work by the hour, $15,600, including not exceed-
ing $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses
connected with such distribution, and expenses of attend-
ance at meetings when incurred on the written authority
and direction of the Librarian, $39,500.

TEMPORARY SERVICES: For special and temporary ser-
vice, including extra special services of regular employees
at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000.

CARRIER SERVICE: For service in connection with the
Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof
as may be necessary.

SUNDAY OPENING: To enable the Library of Congress to
be kept open for reference use from two until ten o'clock
postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the
discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of
employees and the services of additional employees under
the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary.

INCREASE OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: For purchase of
books for the Library and for freight, commissions, and
traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the

154 Report of the Librarian of Congress

acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange,
to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred
and seventeen, $90,000, together with the unexpended
balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the
fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.

For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law
library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000.

For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme
Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased
by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction
of the Chief Justice, $2,000;

For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers,
$5,000;

In all, $100,000.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES : For miscellaneous and contingent
expenses, stationery, supplies, stock and materials directly
purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, trans-
portation, incidental expenses connected with the adminis-
tration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including
not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings
when incurred on the written authority and direction of the
Librarian, $7,300.

LIBRARY BUILDING AND GROUNDS: Superintendent, $3,000,
and the salary of the superintendent of the Library building
and grounds shall, from and after the passage of this Act,
be at the rate of $3,000 per annum, and the amount appro-
priated for the salary of said superintendent for the balance
of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall be
available for the payment of said salary at the rate of $3,000
per annum; clerks one $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one
$1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; telephone switch-
board operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator;
captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000;
sixteen watchmen, at $900 each; carpenter, painter, and
foreman of laborers, at $900 each; fourteen laborers, at

A ppropriation Acts 19 15-16 155

$540 each; two attendants in ladies' room, at $480 each;

four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425;
assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight char-
women; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers one
$1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists
one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber,
$900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers,
at $720 each; in all, $76,845.

For extra services of employees and additional employees
under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the
Library Building from two until ten o'clock post meridian
on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800.

For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric
and steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and
delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection
with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building
and grounds, $14,000.

For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and
electrical work pertaining thereto, including not exceeding
$7,000 for the extension and completion of the steel stack
for storage of catalogue cards in the card section, $17,000.

Provisions in "An act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1916, and for other purposes."

For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled
labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be
requested by the superintendent of the Library Building,
$i ,000.

Public printing and binding: For the Library of Congress,
including the copyright office, and the publication of the
Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and bind-
ing, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for build-
ings and grounds, Library of Congress, $200,000.

APPENDIX II

REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1914-15

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7, 1915

SIR : The copyright business and the work of the Copy-
right Office for the fiscal year July i, 1914, to June 30, 1915,
inclusive, are summarized as follows:

RECEIPTS

The gross receipts during the year were $115,594.55. A Feet, etc.
balance of $8,332.12, representing trust funds and unfin-
ished business, was on hand July i, 1914, making a total of
$123,926.67 to be accounted for. Of this amount the sum
of $2,746.57 received by the Copyright Office, was refunded
as excess fees or as fees for articles not registrable, leaving a
net balance of $121,180.10. The balance carried over to
July i, 1915, was $9,257.35 (representing trust funds,
$7,651.61, and total unfinished business since July i, 1897
1 8 years $1,605.74), leaving -fees applied during the fiscal
year 1914-15, $111,922.75.

The yearly copyright fees have more than doubled since
the reorganization of the office in 1897, reaching above the
one hundred thousand dollar mark during the first year of
operation under the new copyright law which went into
effect on July i, 1909. The annual applied fees since July i,
1897, are:

1897-98 $55,926.50

1898-99 58, 267. oo

1899-1900 65, 206. oo

1900-1901 63, 687. 50

1901-2 64, 687. oo

1902-3 68,874.50

1903-4 72, 629. oo

1904-5 78,058.00

1905-6 80, 198. oo

1906-7 84,685.00

1907-8 $82,387.50

1908-9 83,816.75

1909-10 104,644.95

1910-11 I 09>9 I 3-9S

1911-12 116,685.05

1912-13 114,980.60

1913-14 120,219.25

5 I", 9 22 -7S

Total 1,536,789.30

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EXPENDITURES

Salaries The appropriation made by Congress for salaries in the

Copyright Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915,
was $102,580. The total expenditures for salaries was
$102,419.36, or $9,503.39 less than the net amount of fees
earned and paid into the Treasury during the corresponding
year. The expenditure for supplies, including stationery
and other articles and postage on foreign mail matter, etc. ,
was $1,354.03.

Copyright re- During the 1 8 fiscal years since the reorganization of the
Copyright Office (from July i, 1897, to June 30, 1915) the
total receipts have reached over one and a half million dollars
($1,608,361.55) ; the copyright fees applied and paid into the
Treasury have amounted to more than a million and a half
dollars ($1,536,789.30) ; the articles deposited number nearly
three and a half millions (3,441,054), and the total copy-
right registrations approach two millions (1,935,574).

Excess of fees The fees ($1,536,789.30) were larger than the appropria-

OTXT salaries , . ,. , 11-

tion for salaries used during the same period ($1,306,535.28)
by $230,254.02.
Value of copy- i n addition to this direct profit, a large number of the

right deposits . .

3,441,054 books, maps, music, periodicals, pnnts, and other
articles deposited during the 18 years were of substantial
pecuniary value and of such a character that their accession
to the Library of Congress through the Copyright Office
effected a saving to the purchase fund of the Library equal
in amount to their price.

Registrations fhe registrations for the fiscal year numbered 115,193.
Of these 104,420 were registrations at $i each, including a
certificate, and 9,447 were registrations of photographs
without certificates, at 50 cents each. There were also
1,326 registrations of renewals, at 50 cents each. The fees
for these registrations amounted to a total of $109,806.50.
The number of registrations in each class from July i,
1914, to June 30, 1915, as compared with the number of
entries made in the previous year, is shown in Exhibit F.

iicd

copyright law which have been registered, stamped, indexed,
and catalogued during the fiscal year amount to 203,767.
The number of these articles in each class for the 18 fiscal
years is shown in Exhibit G.

The copvright act which went into force on July i, 1909, TRANSFERRED

J J LIBRARY:

provides for the gradual elimination of the accumulated Books
copyright deposits (sees. 59 and 60). During the year books
desired for the Library to the number of 6,792 volumes
(including 2,286 Foreign books and pamphlets) have been
forwarded through the Order Division. These selected
books were in addition to the "first" copies of copyright
books sent forward as received from day to day, numbering
12,164 f r the fiscal year. In addition, there has been trans-
ferred upon the Librarian's order, a collection of books and
pamphlets relating to American poetry and printed dramas
by American authors, numbering 8,034 pieces; thus making
a total of 26,990 books and pamphlets delivered to the
Library from the Copyright Office during the year.

Of musical compositions 21,406 were deposited and other articles:

Music, maps.

registered dunng the year, and of these 19,9^ were trans- pnn ts , photo-

.... A n , t graphs and period

f erred to the Music Division. All of the 1,772 maps regis- '**
tered were placed in the Map Division. Out of the total of
23,458 photographs, engravings, and other "pictorial illus-
trations" entered, 8,681 were selected and forwarded to the
Prints Division for permanent deposit. Of the 20 daily
newspapers registered, both copies were promptly sent to
the Periodical Division, and 909 magazines and periodicals,
including weekly newspapers, out of the 1,181 different
journals received, were also transferred to that division;*
while 252 of the least important publications registered under
the designation "periodical," have been returned during the
year to the copyright claimants.

The act of March 4, 1909 (sec. 59), provides for the transfer r^^
to other "governmental libraries" in the District of Colum- n> *
bia "for use therein" of such copyright deposits as are not
required by the Library of Congress, and during the present
fiscal year 8,522 books were selected by the librarians and
thus transferred to the libraries of the following: Depart-

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ments (Agriculture, Commerce, Navy, and Treasury);
Bureaus (Education, Fisheries, Mines, Standards) ; Engineer
School, Federal Trade Commission, Hygienic Laboratory,
Internal Revenue Office, Pension Office, Soldiers' Home,
Surgeon General's Office, and the Public Library of the
District of Columbia.

Return of de- Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority
ctoMMMte * ' ^ granted also for the return to the claimants of copyright
of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library
or Copyright Office. The notice required by section 60 has
been printed for all classes of works deposited and registered
during the years January i, 1900, to June 30, 1909. In
response to special requests, 102 dramatic or musical compo-
sitions and 5,475 motion-picture films have been returned
to the copyright claimants, and of the current deposits not
needed by the Library of Congress the following have also
been so returned: 10,332 "books" (pamphlets, leaflets, etc.),
125 photographs, 17,729 prints, 2,929 contributions to peri-
odicals, 5,915 periodicals; a total of 42,607 pieces. The
total number of articles thus transferred during the year or
returned to the copyright claimants amounts to more than
one hundred and fifty thousand pieces (154,523).

Request for j n response to inquiries during the year from the Card
Section, the Order Division, and the Reading Room in regard
to 470 books supposed to have been copyrighted but not
found in the Library, it was discovered that 57 of these
works were actually in the Library, 20 of the books had
been deposited and were still in the Copyright Office, 100
works were either not published, did not claim copyright,
or for other reasons could not be deposited, and in the case
of 135 works no answers to our letters of inquiry had been
received up to June 30, 1915. Copies were received of
158 works in all in response to requests made by the Copy-
right Office during the period of 1 2 months for works pub-
lished during recent years.

THE COPYRIGHT INDEX AND CATALOGUE, BULLETINS, AND
CIRCULARS

index cards /j^ copyright registrations are indexed upon cards.
The cards made are first used as copy for the printed cata-
logue and after printing are added to the permanent card

indexes of the copyright entries. The temporary cards
made for the indexes to the printed catalogue (numbering
87,227 during the fiscal year) have been eliminated, and
the remaining cards (107,337 f r the fiscal year) were
added to the permanent card indexes, now numbering
over 2,825,000 cards. By revision and condensation 4,800
cards were canceled and withdrawn from the indexes during
the year. The printing of the catalogue of dramas, copy-
righted from 1870 to 1914 (to begin after July i), will
permit the elimination of more than 126,000 cards and to
that extent relieve the pressure for space in the index.

The publication of the Catalogue of Copyright Entries has Catalogue of

, j j i_ 1 TA r Copyright Entries

been continued, as required by law. For convenience of
search, the volumes are made to cover the works published
and deposited during the calendar year rather than the
fiscal year. Five volumes of the Catalogue of Copyright
Entries were printed for the calendar year 1914, containing
a total of 7,742 pages of text and indexes.

Each part of the catalogue is sold separately at a nominal Subscription

. -' price of catalogue

annual subscription rate within the maximum price estab-
lished by law, as follows :

Part I, Books, pamphlets, dramatic compositions, and
maps (two volumes), $i ; Part II, Periodicals, 50 cents;
Part III, Musical compositions (a very bulky volume), $i;
Part IV, Prints, including chromos and lithographs, photo-
graphs, motion pictures, and the descriptions of original
works of art paintings, drawings, and sculpture 50 cents.
The price for the entire catalogue for the year is $3. The
subscriptions, by express provisions of the copyright act,
are required to be paid to the Superintendent of Docu-
ments (Office of the Public Printer, Washington, D. C.),
and all subscriptions must be for the complete year for
each part desired.

The judicial decisions rendered during the year 1913-
1914, construing the copyright act of March 4, 1909 (hith-
erto printed as addenda to the annual report of the Register
of Copyrights), were printed as a separate bulletin of the
Copyright Office. (Bulletin No. 17. Washington, Govern-
ment printing office, 1915. 105 pp. 8.)

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information dr- The following Presidential Proclamations relating to
Copyright were printed and distributed during the year:

The Proclamation of January i, 1915, extending to
British authors the benefits of section i (e) of the copy-
right act of 1909, relating to the mechanical reproduction
of music, together with the proclamation by the President
of the British Order in Council, dated February 3, 1915,
providing for the protection in Great Britian of unpublished
works by citizens of the United States (Information Cir-
cular, No. 53); and the proclamation of May i, 1915, ex-
tending the benefits of section i (e) of the Copyright Act
to the subjects of Italy (Information Circular, No. 54).

Catalogue of The copyright law authorizes the printing at intervals of

copyrighted dra-
mas. 1870-1914 general catalogues to cover each class of copyright entries.

With this in view, the Copyright Office record books have
been carefully examined and verified from the earliest
volume of entries made under the direction of the Librarian
of Congress in 1870, and all registrations for dramatic com-
positions have been reindexed and a complete catalogue
compiled of dramas copyrighted from July, 1870, to De-
cember 31, 1914. This includes more than 56,000 titles,
and has been supplied with a careful index of the names of
the copyright proprietors, authors, joint authors, editors,
translators, etc. (approximately 70,000 references). The
manuscript copy for this catalogue was completed in Feb-
ruary last, and the printing of the work will begin as soon
as the appropriations for the new fiscal year are available on
July i. Considerable interest has been expressed in this
compilation, and it is believed that it will be found useful
and of exceptional interest. Its printing should release
the office from making searches in the case of many in-
quiries received concerning entries included in the work,
and will also enable the office to eliminate this large accu-
mulation of cards from the manuscript index.

SUMMARY OF COPYRIGHT BUSINESS

Balance on hand July i , I9 i 4 $8, 332. 12

Gross receipts July i, 1914, to June 30, 1915. 115,594. 55

Total to be accounted for 123, 926. 67

Refunded 2, 746. 57

Balance to be accounted for $121, 180. 10

Applied as earned fees in, 922. 75

Balance carried over to July i, 1915:

Trust funds $7, 651. 61

Unfinished business July i,
1897, to June 30, 1915, 18
years 1,605.74

9, 2 57- 35

121, 180. 10

Total fees earned and paid into the Treasury during the

18 years from July i, 1897, to June 30, 1915 i, 536, 789. 30

Total unfinished business for 18 years i, 605. 74

Total fees for registrations recorded $109, 806. 50

Fees for certified copies of record, at 50 cents

each 507. oo

Fees for recording assignments i, 195. oo

Searches made and charged for at the rate
of 50 cents for each hour of time consumed. 255. oo

Notices of user recorded (Music) 126. 25

Indexing transfers of proprietorship 33. oo

2, 116. 25

Total fees for fiscal year 1914-15 in, 922. 75

FEES FOR FISCAL YEAR

Fees for registrations, including certificates, Fees

at $i each $104, 420. oo

Fees for registrations of photographs without

certificates, at 50 cents each 4, 723. 50

Fees for registrations of renewals, at 50 cents

each 663. oo

ENTRIES

Number of registrations 113, 867 Entries

Number of renewals recorded 1,326

Total number of entries recorded 115, 193

Number of certified copies of record i, 014

Number of assignments recorded or copied 895

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Correspondence Xhe greater part of the business of the Copyright Office
is done by correspondence and there is a steady increase
from year to year in the mail matter received and dis-
patched. The total letters and parcels received during
the fiscal year numbered 147,538, while the letters, certifi-
cates, parcels, etc., dispatched numbered 149,461. Letters
received transmitting remittances numbered 44,221, includ-
ing money orders to the number of 30,420. During the
last 1 8 fiscal years the money orders received numbered
nearly half a million (472,828).

CONDITION OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE WORK
(a) Current work

Condition of cur- At this date (July 7, 1915) the remittances received up
to the third mail of the day have been recorded. The
account books of the bookkeeping division are written up
and posted to June 30, and the accounts rendered to the
Treasury Department are settled up to and including the
month of June, while earned fees to June 30, inclusive, have
been paid into the Treasury.

All copyright applications received up to and including
June 30 have been passed upon and refunds made. The
unfinished business amounted on June 30, 1915, to $1,605.74.
Of this sum, however, more than $1,000 represented business
for the fiscal year, held awaiting answers to letters from
the Copyright Office in regard to informalities, etc., and
not over $600 represented the total unfinished business for
the previous 18 years from July i, 1897.

At the close of business on July 7, 1915, of the works
deposited for copyright registration up to and including
June 30 all had been recorded except 43 registrations in
Class A and 70 in Class B. There remained to be indexed:
Class A, Books, 843; Class D, Dramas, 48; Class E, Music,
804; Class G, Fine Arts, 65; Class J, Photographs, 247.

(6) Deposits received prior to July i, 1897

Deposits prior to During the fiscal year 1914-15 about 2,842 articles received
prior to July i, 1897, were handled in the work of credit-
ing such matter to the proper entries. Of these articles

1,141 pieces (including 470 pamphlets and leaflets, 628
periodical contributions, and 43 miscellaneous articles)
were credited to their respective entries and properly
filed. Entries were found for 1,100 more pamphlets, etc.,
and they have been arranged for crediting. Careful search
was made in the case of 300 other pamphlets, etc., but no
corresponding entries were found. In addition, about
15,150 printed titles filed prior to July 8, 1870, have been
arranged by classes (Books, Music, Prints, Labels, etc.)
to facilitate examination. The examination of this old
material becomes proportionately slow and its identifica-
tion more difficult as the remaining material presents
fewer clues under which search can be made for possible
entries. Meantime the pressure of the current copyright
business has been so great as to oblige the transfer, from
time to time, of the clerks from work upon the old unfinished
material to the current work.

A Branch Office,

September 18, 1913, provided for the protection of foreign p anama . Pacific
exhibitors at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition E * />0f " lon
and for the establishment of a branch copyright office at
San Francisco. The preparations for this special work
were duly made, but up to June 30, 1915, no applica-
tions for copyright certificates had been received, and hence
no registrations have been made. It is still possible that
requests for the registration authorized by the act may yet
be received.

The temporary transfer of Mr. Ernest Bruncken, Assistant
Register of Copyrights, to the newly organized Legislative
Reference Division of the Library of Congress, from Decem-
ber 7, 1914, to June 30, 1915, gave opportunity to recognize
the long and valuable service rendered by Mr. Arthur
Crisfield as Chief of the Application Division of the Copy-
right Office. Mr. Crisfield was temporarily promoted to
the position of Assistant Register during Mr. Bruncken's
absence.

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/. Legislation

. R. 1*524 No copyright legislation was enacted during the fiscal year.
The record of proposed amendment of the copyright law is
as follows :

On August 25, 1914, Mr. Charles B. Smith, of New York,
introduced in the House of Representatives a bill * to
amend the existing law to include as subject matter of
copyright "any check, voucher, certificate, or other business
form entirely or partly printed." It is identical with the bill
introduced on January 30, 1904, by Mr. Bartholdt, the
text of which was printed in the Report of the Librarian of
Congress for 1903-4, pages 146-147.

. R.2o6o5 on January 8, 1915, a bill 2 was introduced in the House of
Representatives ("by request") by Mr. Oldfield to amend
sections 21 and 31 of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909,
to increase the ad interim term of protection for English
books, before publication of an American edition must take
place, from 30 days to 90 days, and to prohibit the importa-
tion now permitted of one copy for private use of individual
readers or for libraries, except with the consent of the
American publisher. The full text of the bill is printed on
page 189 of this report.

BWH.R.2TI37 On January 23, 1915, Mr. Oldfield, Chairman of the House
Committee on Patents, reintroduced, in a modified text,
the bill (H. R. 16238) originally introduced by Mr. Levy.
Public hearings by the Committee on Patents were held
on the Levy bill on May 2/-June 30 and September 16,
I9i4. 3 The bill (H. R. 21137)* proposes to amend the

1 1914 (Aug. 25). A bill to amend title 60, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the
United States of America, relating to copyrights. Presented by Mr. Smith of New York .
H. R. bill No. 18524. Printed, 4 pp. 4. [Referred to the Committee on Patents.]

* I 9 I 5 (Jan. 8). A bill to amend sections 21 and 31 of the act entitled "An act to amend
and consolidate the acts respecting copyright," approved Mar. 4, 1909. Presented by
Mr. Oldfield. H. R. bill No. 20695. Printed, 4 pp. 4. [Referred to the Committee on
Patents.]

* "Secondary meaning" right attaching after expiration of copyright. Hearing before
the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, 63d Cong., 2d sess., May 27-
June 30, 1914 [and September 16, 1914]. 8. Washington, Government printing office,
1915. 136 p. + i 1.+I37-I78 pp.

4 I 9 I S (Jan. 23). A bill to amend section 23 of the act entitled "An act to amend and
consolidate the acts respecting copyright," approved Mar. 4, 1909. Presented by Mr.
Oldfield. H. R. bill No. 11137. Printed, 2 pp. 4. [Referred to the Committee on
Patents.]

" Upon the expiration of the copyright of a book, or the renewal
thereof should the same be renewed, there shall exist no superior rights
of any nature whatsoever in the publisher or former proprietor thereof
to the matter which has been the subject of copyright or to the name
or title thereof, but both the matter which has been the subject of
copyright and its name or title shall fall into the public domain and
thereafter be forever free to the unrestricted use of the public."

On January 25, Mr. Oldfield, from the Committee on No " 4
Patents, submitted a report 1 to accompany bill H. R. 21137,
with the recommendation '-'that the bill do pass." This
report is as follows :

"It has come to the knowledge of the committee that publishers
throughout the United States, after the expiration of 56 years of copy-
right monopoly, have claimed and exercised and seek to perpetually
exercise, under the interpretation of the law by the Federal courts, a
"secondary meaning" right which, it is claimed, during the period of
copyright protection attached to their publications by no other circum-
stance than from long-continued advertising of their respective works.
The result is that publishers of matter on which the copyright has
long since expired are enabled to perpetuate the monopoly originally
granted them under the copyright law, thus suppressing competition,
preventing the expansion of the field of industry in the printing and
allied trades, and adversely affecting educational conditions through-
out the country by compelling the public to pay arbitrary prices for
the standard textbooks and other works essential in the dissemination
of knowledge. In the opinion of the committee, this condition should
not exist."

On February 15, 1915, on motion of Mr. Martin A. Mor-
rison, a member of the House Committee on Patents, the
bill was stricken from the House Calendar.

In my last year's report attention was called to the three
bills which had been introduced to establish a federal
motion-picture censorship commission. One of these (H.
R. I4895) 2 , presented by Mr. Hughes of Georgia, on March

1 1915 (Jan. 25). Amendment of the laws relating to copyrights. Mr. Oldfield, from
the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report (to accompany H. R. 21137).
6sd Cong., jd sess. H. R. Rept. No. 1314. Printed, i p. 8.

2 Feb. 16, 1915. A bill to create a new division of the Bureau of Education, to be
known as the Federal motion-picture commission, and defining its powers and duties.
Reported by Mr. Hughes of Georgia. H. R. Bill No. 14895. Printed, 4 pp. 4. [Com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to
be printed. 1

9434 IS 12

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21, 1914, was favorably reported by Mr. Hughes from the
Committee on Education on February 16 1915 (H. Rept.
No. 141 1). 1 The report states that:

The bill which this report accompanies provides for the appointment
by the President of five commissioners, and a supplementary force of
advisory commissioners and deputy commissioners to be appointed
by the commission. The commission is required to license all films
intended for interstate commerce or which are to be offered for copy-
right "unless it finds that such film is obscene, indecent, immoral,
inhuman, or depicts a bull fight or a prize fight, or is of such a character
that its exhibition would tend to impair the health or corrupt the morals
of children or adults or incite to crime. ' '

It is further provided that a film not having been licensed by the
commission shall not be transported in interstate commerce and shall
not be granted a copyright.

Section 9 of the bill provides:

"That no copyright shall be issued for any film which has not previ-
ously received the certificate and seal of this commission."

BUIH. R. 15902 f^ bin providing for the public printing which passed the
House of Representatives on December 9, 1914, contains a
provision to the effect that "No Government publication
nor any portion thereof shall be copyrighted" (sec. 44,
par. 3); and the term "Government publication" as used
in the act it is declared "shall be held to mean and include
all publications printed at Government expense or pub-
lished or distributed by authority of Congress." The text
of the House act was reported by Mr. Fletcher from the
Senate Committee on Printing "with amendments" on
January 13, 1915, and was ordered to be printed. No final
action was taken before adjournment.

II. International Copyright Relations
Pan- American f ne Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyright,

States and 19 Central and South American States, was pro-
claimed by the President on July 13, 1914, as effective be-

1 1915 (Feb. 16). Federal motion-picture commission. Mr. Hughes of Georgia, from
the Committee on Education, submitted the following report (to accompany H. R.
14895)- 63d Cong., jd sess. H. R. Rept. No. 1411. Printed. 3 pp. 8.

tween the United States and the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
We are also officially informed by the Department of State
that the Government of Bolivia has announced through
diplomatic channels the adhesion of that country to the
Copyright Convention of 1910.

The full text of this important document, the first general
international copyright treaty agreed to by the United
States, is printed on pages 197-200 of this report.

By the British Order in Council signed on February 3,1915, Great Britain:

Order in Council.

for the purpose of providing "protection within the British Feb. 3, wi
dominions for the unpublished works of citizens of the
United States," it was ordered that the British Copyright
Act of 1911, should apply:

" (a) To literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works the
authors whereof were at the time of the making of the work
citizens of the United States of America, in like manner as
if the authors had been British subjects.

(6) In respect of residence in the United States of America,
in like manner as if such residence had been residence in the
parts of His Majesty's dominions to which the said act
extends."

The order was declared to be effective from January i,
1915, but not to apply to Canada, Newfoundland, Australia,
New Zealand, or South Africa, and with the express provision
that the enjoyment of the rights conferred by the order
"shall be subject to the accomplishment of the conditions
and formalities prescribed by the law of the United States,"
and that the term of copyright protection in Great Britain
"shall not exceed that conferred by the law of the United
States. " The full text of the order is printed , pages 191-192.

This Order in Council was made upon the understanding Presidential

Proclamations un-

that a proclamation by the President would be issued ex- der sec. /().- Great
tending to the subjects of Great Britain the benefits of
section i (e) of the Copyright Act to secure copyright con-

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trolling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce me-
chanically the musical work, and such proclamation was
issued on January i, 1915, in behalf of "the subjects of
Great Britain and the British dominions, colonies and
possessions with the exception of Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, and Newfoundland."

tMy A similar proclamation by the President was issued on

May i, 1915, declaring that the subjects of Italy are entitled
to all the benefits of section i (e) including such control of
the mechanical reproduction of music. These proclama-
tions are printed on pages 195-196 of this report.

Countries under Presidential proclamations have now been issued under

fee. i (e)

various dates extending the benefits of section i (e) to the
following countries: December 10, 1910, Germany; June 14,
1911, Belgium, Luxemburg, Norway; November 27, 1911,
Cuba; October 15, 1912, Hungary; January i, 1915, Great
Britain and the British dominions, with the exception of
Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and South
Africa; May i, 1915, Italy.
Respectfully submitted

THORVALD SOLBERG

Librarian of Congress

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EXHIBIT A Statement of gross receipts, refunds, net receipts, and fees
applied for fiscal year ending June 30, 1915

Month'

Gross cash
receipts

Refunds

Net re-
ceipts

Fees ap-
plied

1914
July

$244. 68

$8, 977. 40

August

7,499. 81

September

9, 248. 78

8, 249. oo

October

n, 209. 20

November

8, 159. 58

218. 65

8, 686. 55

December

12,084.87

175.82

9, 390. 80

1915
January

February

March

April

8,815. 26

May

8,827. 21

June

Total

111,922. 75

Balance brought forward from June 30, 1914

Net receipts July i, 1914, to June 30, 1915:

Gross receipts $115, 594- 55

Less amount refunded 2, 746. 57

Total to be accounted for

Balance carried forward to July i, 1915:

Trust funds 7,651.61

Unfinished business 1,605. 74

$8,332. 12

112,847.98
121,180. 10

121,180.10

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EXHIBIT B Statement of fees paid into Treasury

Date

Check
No.

Amount

Date

Check
No.

Amount

1914

1915
Jan. 4

1183

336

376

1248

Feb. i

1366

603

Sept. 5 . ...

623

8 ....

1580

Oct. 5 . .-

736

803

872

1800

1,900.00

967

1877

989

6 ....

Dec. 5

786.55

2044

2,000- oo

i, 700- oo

1085

2, TOO. OO

June i

2152
2192

2,600.00
441-15

I, 200.00

2j 7OO. OO

2278

I,8OO.OO

2, 5OO.OO

July 6

2383

I, 780.65

Total

111,922. 75

EXHIBIT C Record of applied fees

173

Month

Num-
ber of
regis-
tra-
tions
includ-
ing cer-
tificate

Fees at $i
each

Num-
ber of
regis-
tra-
tions
photo-
graphs,
no cer-
tificate

Fees at
50 cents
each

Num-
ber of
re-
newal
regis-
tra-
tions

Fees
at 50
cents
each

Total
num-
ber of
regis-
tra-
tions

Total fees
for regis-
trations

1914
July

8,422
7.534
7,754
10, 594
8,182
8,769

9,989
7.- 785
9.231
8, 88 1
8,034
9.245

$8,422.00
7, 534. oo
7, 754. oo
10, 594. oo
8, 182. oo
8, 769. oo

9, 989. oo
7,785.00
9,231.00
8,881.00
8, 034. oo
9, 245. oo

804
73i
687
7i5
607
867

1,029
701
876
678
860
892

$402.00
365- 50

343- 50
357- 50
303- 50
433-50

SI4- 50
350- 50
438.00
339-00
430.00
446.00

38
46

49
86
103
105

346
57
256
IIS
46
79

$19.00
23.00
24.50
43-00
5I-50
52-50

173-00
28.50
128.00
57-50
23.00
39-50

9,264
8,3"
8,490
n395
8,892
9.741

11.364
8,543
10, 363
9.674
8,940
10, 216

$8, 843. oo
7,922.50

8, 122.00

10, 994. 50
8,537-00
9,255.00

10, 676. 50
8, 164. oo
9. 797- oo
9, 277. 50
8, 487. oo
9. 730. 50

August

October

November

Dpremher

I9IS

January

February.

March

April

May

June

Total

104, 420

104, 420- oo

9.447

4. 723- 50

1,326

663.00

1 15. 193

109,806. 50

Month

Copies of record

a
-s

Assignments and
copies

<S y

Notice of user in re
music

8
a

o u

c s
- s

I
J

Indexing transfers
of proprietor

Search fees

Total applied fees

1914
July

89
31
80
139
62

72
84
80
145
99
84

$44.50
15-50
40.00
69.50
31-00
24.50

36.00
42.00
40.00

72.50
49-50

42.00

49
34
54
8s
88
81

58
34
88

101

129

$64.00
57-oo
58.00
104.00
97-oo
91.00

82.00
41.00
138.00
157.00
176.00
130.00

18
16

22
26

a?
33
57
31
31

$3-00
7-25
12.50
7-50
9-25
9-50

10.75
5-25
20.00
19-25
8-75
13-25

17
5
17

17
24
16
41
39
49

$3-90
1.70
50
1.70
1. 80
4.80

1.70
2.40
1. 60
4. 10
3-90
4.90

$19.00
17.00
16. oo
32.00
10.50
6. oo

13-00
16. oo
25-50
24.00

16. oo
60. oo

$8, 977. 40
8, 020. 95
8, 249. oo
n, 209. 20
8,686.55
9, 390. 80

10, 819. 95
8, 270. 65
10,022. 10
9. 554- 35
8,741.15
9, 980. 65

September . .

October

November.

Dprpmhpr

I9IS

January

February.

March

April

May

June

Total

1,014

507-00

895

1, 195.00

335

126. 25

330

33-oo

255-00

111,922. 75

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EXHIBIT D Copyright business (monthly comparison). Annual report
for the fiscal year from July I, 1914, to June 30, 1915

COMPARATIVE MONTHLY STATEMENT OF GROSS CASH RECEIPTS,
EXECUTED BUSINESS, NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS, DAILY AVER-
AGES. ETC.

Month

Gross receipts

Monthly
receipts

Monthly
increase

Monthly
decrease

Daily
average

1914
July

$10,026.27
7,791.02
9, 248. 78

$297- 58
I.457-76

$385.62
299-65
369-95
386.22
326.31
464.80

478-58
371- 75
355- 65
365-65
362.95
366.30

August

$2^235. 25

September
October

November

8, 159. 58

2, 268. 41

120.37
3,414.20

December
1915
January

12,084.87

'3.925-29

February

March

9,602. 52

I,O52. 22

April

461. 14
67.66

May

Jiinp

9*523-62

449.90

Total

Month

Business executed

1914-15

Increase

Decrease

Daily
average

1914
July

$i, 266. 70
956- 45

$345- 28
308.49
329-96
415- is
347-46
361. 18

432-79
359-00
37i-i9
382. 16
349.64
383- 87

August

September
October

8, 249. oo
n, 209. 20
8,686.55
9,390-80

10, 819. 95

ItS&O]

2,90O. 20

November

2,522-65

nprpmhpr .....

704-25
1,429.15

I9IS
January
February

2, 549- 30

March

April

9,554-35

467- 75
813. 20

May

June

9, 980. 65

239- 50

Total

175

EXHIBIT D Copyright business (monthly comparison). Annual report
for the fiscal year from July I, 1914, to June 30, 1915 Continued

COMPARATIVE MONTHLY STATEMENT OF GROSS CASH RECEIPTS.
EXECUTED BUSINESS, NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS. DAILY AVER-
AGES, ETC. Continued

Month

Number of registrations

Totals

Incfease

Decrease

Daily
average

1914
July

9,264
8,3"
8,490
".395
8,892
9)741

>364

8,543
10)363

i, 218
953

356
319
339
422
355
375

454
371
384
387
357
393

179
2>90S

2)503

849
1,623

1915

February

2,821

March

1,820

April

689

734

May

8,940

June

10,216

1,276

Total

EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number of
registrations, etc., for 18 fiscal years, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1899-1900,
1900-1901, 1901-2, 1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8,
1908-9, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15

GROSS RECEIPTS

Month

1897-98

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-1901

19012

1902-3

July

$5, 156.87

$5,382. 28

August

4)525-27

4,675.96

4.846.97

5,864. 68

4, 880. 60

4, 504. 56

September. .

5,218.87

4, 714. 82

6,078.95

4,986.62

5,295-87

5,539.67

October ....

5>556. 21

5) 149- 07

5. 583- 59

6,027.36

5.399-03

5,651.16

November. .

4,292.88

4, 788. 30

5.479-15

5,068.11

5,019. 10

5,646.93

December . .

6,512.60

6,435-56

6, 728.06

7. 332- 53

7, 201.64

8,005.75

January. . . .

6, 074. 03

6,050.86

7,649.80

7,155-68

7, 604. 08

8,053.81

February . . .

4, 606- 92

5.I4I-40

5. 523-47

4,803.50

4,810.59

5, 360. 48

March..

5, 138- 78

6,300.02

6,5i5-43

6, 049. 07

5,899.56

6,119.54

6, 086. 82

May.

Jtmr

5,762.86

5,821. 58

Total.

6^099.56

64, 185. 65

71.072-33

69,525-25

68, 405. 08

71; 533- 91

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EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number
of registrations , etc., for 18 fiscal years, etc. Continued

GROSS RECEIPTS Continued

Month.

1903-4

1904-5

1905-6

1906-7

1907-8

1908-9

July

$5, 380. 97

$5, 54- 3

$5. 779- 98

$6, 469. 68

$6, 772- 43

$6, 498. 83

August

4, 958. 30

5, 770. 70

6,071.25

5,601.93

7, 179. 19

6, 193. 68

September. .

5,658.48

6,849.35

6, 405. 60

6, 137- 15

6, 605. 38

6, 606. 26

October ....

6,323.42

6, 704. 89

6,789.36

6, 786. 13

7,343-io

7,306.88

November . .

S.303-93

6, 056. 79

6,310.94

6, 920. 64

6,327.06

6, 546. 78

December . .

8,581.60

7,699.47

7,981.03

7, 856. 74

7, 386. 04

7,873.33

January

7, 502. 53

8, 946. 60

9,321.94

10, 992. 30

9, 260. 75

10, 192. 88

February.. .

6, 185. 14

6, 029. 62

6, 259. 18

6,3i8-95

6,558-38

7,303.02

March . .

6, 567. 73

7,311. 90

6, 965. 43

7, 662. 29

7, 048. 94

7, 894. 60

April . .

5,996.58

6,806-66

6, 954. 68

7, 524. 81

7, 460. 41

7, 360. 88

May

6, 540. 88

6, 531. 99

6,814.08

8, 173. 59

6, 334- 10

6, 522. 35

June

6, 303. 27

6, 192. 29

6, 957. 45

6, 940. 10

6, 766- 25

6, 786. 04

Total.

75.302.83

80, 440. 56

82,610.92

87,384-31

85, 042. 03

87,085.53

Month.

190910

1910-11

1911-12

1912-13

1913-14

1914-15

July

$8, 244. 05

$7, 660. 44

$8,831.36

$8, 708. 99

$8,009.09

$10, 026. 27

August

8,451.80

7425-97

8,687.42

9,231-85

9, 285. 63

7, 791- 02

September..

9>032.45

8, 800. 67

9, 256. 83

10,115.79

11,002.35

9, 248. 78

October ....

9. 635. 19

9, 288. 51

10, 579- 96

9, 075. 46

10, 152. 05

10,427.99

November. .

9, 166- 19

8, 636. oo

9,328.47

9,316.90

8,512.31

8, 159- 58

December . .

11,504-01

".907-32

11,721.86

11,389.69

12,634.30

12,084.87

January. . . .

12, 198-02

13.564-79

13, 655- 73

13.477-1

14,041.32

11,964. 50

February. . .

8, 450. 90

9,096- 69

10, 204. 08

9,446.40

9, 349- 33

8, 550- 30

March

9,912.31

9,984.89

9, 869. 01

ib, 163. 76

10,625.55

9,602.52

April

9, 185. 51

9, 122. 67

10, 007. 36

9. 975- *5

9, 621. 01

9, 141. 38

May

8,410. 45

9, 036. 88

9. *34- ?6

8, 762. 26

9, 675. 29

9, 073. 72

June

9? 47*- 95

9, 136- 69

8,872.67

9, 304. 91

9, 728. 69

9, 523- 62

Total.

113,662.83

113,661. 52

120, 149. 51

118,968.26

122,636.92

"5,594-55

177

EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number
of registrations , etc., for 18 fiscal years, etc. Continued

BUSINESS EXECUTED

Month

1897-98

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-1901

1901-2

1902-3

July

$4, 724. 50

$4, 789. 50

$5, 115.00

$4, 886. 50

$4, 781.00

August
September..
October
November. .
December . .
January. . . .
February. . .
March

4, 296. oo
4, 559- 5
4,899.00
4,062.00
5, 262.00
6, 224. 50
4, 202- oo
4, 865. oo

4, 266. 50
4,537-50
4, 744. oo
4, 269. 50
5,088.50
6, 192. 50
4, 505. 50
5,312.50 .

4, 709. 50
5,357-50
5,3i7-oo
4, 810. 50
5, .183. oo
8, ooo. 50
5,032.50
5,871-50

5,404.50
4, 738. oo
5,494.50
4, 500. 50
6,339-00
6, 410. 50
4, 546. 50
5,416.50

4,837-50
4, 828. oo
5, 175- SO
4,360.00
6, 176. 50
7, 765. oo
4, 269. oo
5,473-50
5, 271. 50

4, 599. oo
5,388.50
5,492.50
5,242.00
7, 228. 50
8, 107. oo
5, 159. oo
5,993-oo
6,025.00

May

5,809.00

5, 074- 50

June

4, 339. 50

4,651-00

5,369. 50

5,023. 50

5,475.00

5, 784. 50

Total.

55,926.50

58,267.00

65,206.00

63,687.50

64,687.00

68,874.50

Month

1903-4

I904-S

1905-6

1906-7

1907-8

1908-9

July

August
September..
October
November. .
December . .
January. . . .
February. . .
March .

5,043.50
5 , 406. oo
5. 945- S
5, 250. 50
7,441.00
8, 1 20. 50
6,001. 50

5, 707- 50
6,431.50
6,873.00
5,653.00
6, 760. oo
9,432.50
5, 544- 50

5, 734- 50
6,171.50
6,752.00
5, 802. oo

i, 458. oo
9,719.00
6, 076. 50

5, 584. 50
5,559.00
6, 865. 50
6,420. 50
7,863.50
10, 590. oo
6, 190. oo

6, 820- oo
6, 682. oo
6,819.00
6, 181.00
6, 889. oo
9, 247- 50
6, 203. 50
6,885.00

5,875.00
6, 408. 50
7, 188. 50
6,227.50
7,657-75
10, 206. oo
6, 693. 50

April

May . . .

7, 883. 50

6, 186- oo

June. .

Total .

72,629.00

78, 058. oo

80, 198. oo

84, 685. oo

82,387.50

83,816.75

Month

1909-10

1910-11

1911-12

1912-13

1913-14

1914-15

July

August
September..
October ....
November. .
December . .
January. . . .
February. ..
March
April

7, 707. 90
8,523. 10
9,067.50
9, 584- 9
10, 066. 40
9,044.90
8, 138. 80
10, 146. 85

6,831.65
9, 050. 40
9, 293- 85
8,852.35
9,897-35
10,441.80
10,093.60
9, 665. 65

8,377.80

10, 796. 65

IO,959. 20
8,852.50

9, 698. 85
11,214.30
9, 502. 25
11,237.30

8, 679. 70
9, 57- 65
10, 294. 75
9, "5- 75
9, 407- 95
11,713. 10
8,617.60
10, 307. 45

8,293.45
8,622.50
12,827.60
9, 164. 55
9,938.05
12,386.80
9,l75-85
10, 182. 50

8,020.95
8, 249. oo
11,209. 20
8, 686. 55
9, 390. 80
10, 819. 95
8, 270.65
10,022. 10

May

8, 267. 45

8, 778.85

June

9,671.55

10,462.25

9,393-10

9, 274- 10

10, 244. 10

9, 980. 65

Total.

104, 644. 95

i09,9i3-95

116,685.05

114,980.60

120,219.25

111,922.75

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EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number
of registrations , etc., for 18 fiscal years, etc. Continued

NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS

Month

1897-98

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-1901

19012

I002-J

July .

6,8m

6ufl

August
September..
October
November. .
December . .
January ....
February. . .
March ....

5,6i8
6, 106
6,368
5,288
7,408

9, 220

5,514

6,005
6,188
6,316
5,682
7,288
9,556
6,552

6,525

7,57i
7-627
6,814
7,284
12,808
7,521
8,311

7,822
6,685
7,901
6,210
9,693
9,871
6,421

6,776
6,684
7,305
5,909
9,190
12,241
6,333

6,451
7,132
7,771
7,397
10, 792
12,808
7,144
8,663

April

6,834

8,089

8,062

May.

6,888

7,5o8

8>325

June

6,589

8,327

Total.

75, 545

80,968

94,798

92,351

92,978

97,979

Month

1903-4

1904-5

1905-6

1906-7

1907-8

1908-9

Julv

7,778

8, 241

8,985

August
September. .
October
November. .
December . .
January. . . .
February. . .
March

7,147
7,605
8,289
7,352
10, 248

12, 546
8,519
8,657

8,059
8,487
9,326
8,109
9,436
15,116
7,939
10, 879

8,337
9,001
9,778
8,317
10, 936
15,358
8,639
9,628

8,142
7,792
9,682
9,374
",557
16,841
8,991

10.004
9,281
9,652
8,804
10, 163
14,615
8,863

8,190
9,040
10,098
8,820
11,009
16,079
9,301
11,005

April

8,412

10,066

9,402

10,316

9,612

May

8,546

8,845

10,411

11,317

8,616

9,076

June

8, 702

9,838

8,916

Total.

103, 130

"3,374

117,704

123,829

119,742

I 20, 131

Month

1909-10

1910-11

1911-12

191213

1913-14

1914-15

July

7,681

8,869

8,375

August
September. .
October
November. .
December . .
January ....
February.. .
March
April

8,124
8,941
9,672
9,969
10,527
9,5i9
8,414
10, 481
9,808

7,262
9,514
9,8o6
9,232
10,388
11,096
10, 476
9,948

8,957
",I55
11,493
9,086
9,925
11,591
10,077
n,456

8,933
9,875
10,656
9,543
9,771
12,191
8,838
10, 587
10. 463

8,417
8,953
13,142
9,400
10, 245
12,657
9,493
10,421
IO, 979

8,3"
8,490
",395
8,892
9,741
",364
8,543
10,363
9,674

May

8,532

9,871

9,944

10,590

8,940

June

9,98i

10,866

9,493

9,825

IO, 482

10,216

Total.

109,074

115,198

120,931

"9,495

123,154

"5,193

179

EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number
of registrations, etc., for 18 fiscal years, etc. Continued

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GROSS RECEIPTS, YEARLY FEES,
AND NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS

Year

Gross
receipts

Increase

Decrease

1897-98

1898-99 "

$3,086-09

6, 886. 68

68,405.08

3,128.83

1906-7

87,384.31

19078

1908-9

87, 085. 53

1909-10

113,662. 83

191011

113,661. 52

1911-12

1912-13

118,968. 26

1913-14
191415

122,636.92

3,668.66

Total

1,608,361. 55

Year

Yearly fees

Increase

Decrease

1897-98

$55,926. 50

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-1901

1901-2

1902-3

68, 874. 50

1903-4

1904-5

1905-6

1906-7

84, 685. oo

1907-8

82,387.50

1908-9

83,816. 75

190910 *

1910-11

1911-12 '.

1912-13

1913-14

1914-15

Total

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EXHIBIT E Statement of gross cash receipts, business executed, number
of registrations, etc., for 18 fiscal years, etc. Continued

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GROSS RECEIPTS, YEARLY FEES, AND
NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS Continued

Year

Number of
registrations

Increase

Decrease

1897-98

1898-99

go, 968

1899-1900

1900-1901

1901-2

62?

1902-3

19034

19045

19056

1906-7

1907-8

4,087

1908-9

389

1909-10

191011

1911-12

1912-13

1913-14

Total

EXHIBIT F Table of registrations made during fiscal years i go 1-2,
1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8, 1908-9, 1909-10,
1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15, arranged by classes

1901-2

1902-3

1903-4

1904-5

Class A. Books:
(a) Books ( vols. ) and pamphlets

8,399

(6) Booklets, leaflets, circulars, cards
(cy Newspaper and magazine articles

9.174
6,699

7,827
8,050

3>36l

8,593

3,366

10,457

Total

26,466

29,860

Class B. Periodicals (numbers)

Class C. Musical compositions. .

Class D. Dramatic compositions ....

I, 60S

Class E. Maps and charts

I, 708

1,831

Class F. Engravings, cuts, and prints
Class G. Chromos and lithographs

5.999

S546

6,510
2,384

n,303
2,581

Class H. Photographs

Class I. Fine arts: Paintings, drawings, and
sculpture

2,841

3,829

Grand total

181

EXHIBIT F Table of registrations made during fiscal years 1901-2,
1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1006-7, 1907-8, 1908-9, 1909-10,
1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15, arranged by classes
Continued

1905-6

1906-7

1907-8

1908-9

Class A. Books:
(a) Books (vols.) and pamphlets

(6) Booklets "leaflets, circulars, cards. . . .

4,567

Total

Class B Periodicals (numbers)

Class D Dramatic compositions

I; 879

2,382

Class E Maps and charts

i578

Class F. Engravings, cuts, and prints
Class G Chromos and lithographs

10, 946

12,350

io, 863

ii)474
2,899

x<.8?6

Class I. Fine arts: Paintings, drawings, and

3,608

3,860

3,882

Grand total

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EXHIBIT F Table of registrations made during fiscal years 1901-2,
1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8, 1908-9, 1909-10,
1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15, arranged by classes
Continued

1909-10

IQIO-II

1911-12

1912-13

1913-14

I9I4-IS

Class A. Books (including pamph-
lets, leaflets, and contri-
butions to periodicals):
(a) Printed in the United States
(6) Printed abroad in a foreign
language . . .

23) I IS

24, 84O

26, 540

26, 784

28,591
2,860

29, 704

274

423

452

419

440

379

Total

Class B. Periodicals (numbers)
Class C. I/ectures, sermons, ad-
dresses

21,608

23>393

22,580
1 06

23,002

185

24) 134

24,389

Class D. Dramatic or dramatico-
musical compositions. . . .
Class E. Musical compositions
Class F. Maps

3)9H
24)345

3; 4IS
25> 525
2>3i8

3.767
26, 777

2, 158

3> 7o
26, 292

3,957
28, 493

3; 797
21,406

Class G. Works of art; models or de-
signs

4,383

2,871

Class H. Reproductions of works of
art

Class I. Drawings or plastic works
of a scientific or technical
character

Class J. Photographs

12, 778

Class K. Prints and pictorial illus-
trations . .

Class L. Motion-picture photoplays

892

Class M. Motion pictures not photo-
plays

Renewals

928

Total

183

EXHIBIT G Table of articles deposited during 12 fiscal years, 1897-98,
1898-99, 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-2, 1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5,
1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8, ioo8-o l

1897-98

1898-99

1899-
1900

1900-
1901

1901-2

i. Books:
(a) Books proper

Si 575
4,698
3,262
39i
I3> 726
17,217
1,296
2,912
747
5,777
375

5,834
4,196

5,i85
507
9,777
19,976
1,478
3,55
1,050
7,695
14

6,550
5,073
8,851
56i
14, 147
16, 505
i,353
3, 503
i,257
12,115

7,746
5,770
9,010
634
17, 702
16,709
1,718
5,687
1,817
13,064

7,027

6,259
5,577
8i5
19, 573
21, 295
1,566
5,636
1,757
13,884

(6) Volumes, circulars, leaflets, etc. . . .
(c) Newspaper and magazine articles. .

Two copies of each article were received . .
9. Photographs with titles of works of art

55,976

59,217

69,915

79,857

83,389

"1,952
853

118,434
1,709

139, 830
1,614

159, 7M
2,569

166, 778
2,948

Grand total

112,805

120, 143

141,444

162, 283

169, 726

1902-3

1903-4

1904-5

1905-6

i. Books:
(a) Books proper

9,222
5,255
7,097
9 86
21,498
I9,8OI

1,801
5,830
2,006
13,790

12,967
3,084
7,883
J,098
2O,320
21, 203
1,547 .
5,938

2, 167
14, 258

13,389
2,910
9,081
1,224
23,457

22, 984
I,8l7
IO,4OO

2,443
13.954

12,893
3,602
7,833
1,380
22,116
24,801
1,708
10, 239
3,039
16, 210

(6) Volumes, circulars, leaflets, etc
(c) Newspaper and magazine articles . .

4. Musical compositions

6. Engravings, cuts, and prints

8. Photographs

Two copies of each article were received. . .
9. Photographs with titles of works of art for
identification , one copy each

87,286

90,465

101, 719

103,821

174,572
a,947

180, 930
3,869

203,438
3,986

207, 642
3,496

Grand total

I77>5I9

184, 799

207, 424

211,138

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EXHIBIT G Table of articles deposited during 12 fiscal years, 1897-98,
1898-99, 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-2, 1902-3, 1903-4,
1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8, and 1908-9 Continued

1906-7

1907-8

1908-9

Total

i. Books:
(a) Books proper

(6) Volumes, circulars, leaflets, etc
(c) Newspaper and magazine articles . .
2. Dramatic compositions

5.34
8,43
1,568

25, 363

27,425

265,352

3. Periodicals (numbers)

22, 288

4. Musical compositions

5. Maps and charts.

2,082

1,848

19, 786

6. Engravings, cuts, and prints
7. Chromos and lithographs... .

",233
2,589

11,125
2,682

10, 137

2,8O2

86, 205

8. Photographs

ga. Miscellaneous (unclassified articles).

389

111,231

108,513

106,345

1,057,734

Two copies of each article were received ....
Foreign books received under act of Mar.

222,462
585

217,026
796

212,690
I, 146

2,115,468
2,527

9. Photographs with titles of works of art for
identification, one copy each

Grand total

227,047

221, 722

217,869

2, 153,919

185

EXHIBIT G Table of articles deposited during 1909-10, 1910-11, 1911-12,
1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15, with total deposits in each class for 18
fiscal years, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-2, 1902-3,
1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1906-7, 1907-8, 1908-9, 1909-10, 1910-11,
1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15

1909-10

1910-11

191112

i. Books:
(a) Printed in the United States:
Volumes

15,682

17,997

19, 650

Contributions to newspapers and peri-
odicals

3> ISO

I S> 79

5, 705

(6) Printed abroad in a foreign language
English works registered for ad interim copy-

4 5, 832
2,920

4S,2?i
3, 181

635

48, 699
4,606

2. Periodicals

49, 027

49, 087
46, 780

53 948

3. Lectures, sermons, etc

4. Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions

4,800

5. Musical compositions

6. Maps

4,648

7. Works of art' models or designs

4,383

8. Reproductions of works of art

9. Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical
character

10. Photographs

25,802

ii. Prints and pictorial illustrations

Total

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EXHIBIT G Table of articles deposited during 1909-10, 1910-11, 1911-12,
1912-13, 1913-14, and 1914-15 Continued

1912-13

1913-14

1914-15

Total,
1897-1915

i. Books:
(a) Printed in the United States:
Volumes
Pamphlets, leaflets, etc
Contributions to newspapers and peri-
odicals

19, 952

22, 184
5,826

20, 266

24,995

20, 296

25,696

6,886

52,878

(6) Printed abroad in a foreign language
English works registered for ad interim
copyright

4,731

4,916

1,894
380

2. Periodicals

S3; 122

56,693

55,152

847> 733

3. Lectures, sermons, etc ...

183

4. Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions. . .
5. "Musjral rotnpnsiHotis

4,616

4.810

4,136

54,669

6. Maps

3; 980

7. Works of art; models or designs

2,861

55*896

8. Reproductions of works of art

8a. Chromes and li thographs

48, 712

9. Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or
technical character

862

682

10. Photographs

ii. Prints and pictorial illustrations

321,860

12. Motion-picture photoplays

6,596

13. Motion p'"' es not photoplays .'

160

631

14. Miscellaneous (unclassified articles) :

778

15. Foreign books received under act of Mar. 3, 1905.

Total

Addenda to the Report of the Register of Copyrights, 1914-15

CONTENTS

I. Copyright bill, H. R. 20695, pages 189-190.
II. British Order in Council, February 3, 1915, pages 191-192.

III. Presidential Copyright Proclamations under section i (e):

(a) Great Britain, January i, 1915, pages 193-194.
(6) Italy, May i, 1915, pages 195-196.

IV. Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyright, signed Buenos

Aires, Angust n, 1910; proclaimed by United States July 13,
1914, pages 197-200.

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Addendum I
COPYRIGHT BILL, H. R. 20695

[H. R. 20695. I n th e House of Representatives. January 8, 1915]

Mr. OLDFIELD (by request) introduced the following bill ; which was
referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed.

A BILL To amend sections twenty-one and thirty-one of the Act entitled "An Act
to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright," approved March fourth,
nineteen hundred and nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-one of the
Act entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting
copyright," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be
amended to read as follows:

" SEC. 21. That in the case of a book published abroad in the English
language before publication in this country the deposit in the copyright
office, not later than thirty days after its publication abroad-, of one
complete copy of the foreign edition, with a request for the reservation
of the copyright and a statement of the name and nationality of the
author and of the'copyright proprietor and of the date of the publication
of the said book, shall secure to the author or proprietor an ad interim
copyright, which shall have all the force and effect given to copyright
by this Act and shall endure until the expiration of ninety days after
such deposit in the copyright office."

SEC. 2. That section thirty-one of the said Act entitled "An Act to
amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright, " approved March
fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 31. That during the existence of the American copyright in
any book the importation into the United States of any piratical copies
thereof, or of any copies thereof (although authorized by the author
or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the
manufacturing provisions specified in section fifteen of this Act, or any
plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United
States, or any copies thereof produced by lithographic or photoengrav-
ing process not performed within the limits of the United States in
accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, shall be,
and is hereby, prohibited : Provided, however, That, except as regards
piratical copies, such prohibition shall not apply

"(a) To works in raised characters for the use of the blind;

" (b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although containing matter
copyrighted in the United States, printed or reprinted by authority of
the copyright proprietor, unless such newspaper or magazine contains

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also copyright matter printed or reprinted without such authorization;

"(c) To the authorized edition of a book in a foreign language or
languages of which only a translation into English has been copyrighted
in this country;

"(d) To any book published abroad with the authorization of the
author or copyright proprietor when imported under the circumstances
stated in one of the four subdivisions following, that is to say:

"First. When imported, with the consent of the proprietor of the
American copyright or his representative, not more than one copy at a
time, for individual use and not for sale; but such privilege of impor-
tation shall not extend to a foreign reprint of a book by an American
author copyrighted in the United States;

"Second. When imported by the authority or for the use of the
United States;

"Third. When imported, with the consent of the proprietor of the
American copyright or his representative, for use and not for sale, not
more than one copy of any such book in any one invoice, in good faith,
by or for any society or institution incorporated for educational , literary,
philosophical, scientific, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement
of the fine arts, or for any college, academy, school, or seminary of learn-
ing, t>r for any State, school, college, university, or free public library
in the United States;

" Fourth. When such books form parts of libraries or collections pur-
chased en bloc for the use of societies, institutions, or libraries desig-
nated in the foregoing paragraph, or form parts of the libraries or per-
sonal baggage belonging to persons or families arriving from foreign
countries and are not intended for sale and imported into the United
States with the consent of the proprietor of the American copyright or
his representative: Provided, That copies imported as above may not
lawfully be used in any way to violate the rights of the proprietor of the
American copyright or annul or limit the copyright protection secured
by this Act, and such unlawful use shall be deemed an infringement of
copyright."

Addendum II

GREAT BRITAIN

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3d day of February, 1915

PRESENT:

The King's Most Excellent Majesty

Lord President Mr. Secretary Harcourt

Viscount Knollys Mr. Arthur Henderson

Lord Chamberlain Sir William Macgregor

Lord Justice Bankes

Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States of United States
America, dated the 9 th April, 1910, the benefits of the United States A^T^T f
Act of 1909, entitled "An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Acts
respecting Copyright," were extended to the subjects of Great Britain
and her possessions, but no provision was made therein for the pro-
tection of the musical works of British subjects against reproduction
by means of mechanical contrivances: Mechanical mu-

And whereas His Majesty is advised that the Government of the Slcal ret>roduction
United States of America has undertaken, upon the issue of this order,
to grant such protection to the musical works of British subjects:

And whereas by reason of these premises His Majesty is satisfied British Copy-
that the Government of the United States of America has made, O rnghtAct,ion
has undertaken to make, such provision as it is expedient to require
for the protection of works entitled to copyright under the provisions
of Part I of the Copyright Act, 1911:

And whereas by the Copyright Act, 1911, authority is conferred Self - governing
upon His Majesty to extend, by Order in Council, the protection of d ^^ tons notin ~
the said Act to certain classes of foreign works within any part of His
Majesty's Dominions, other than self-governing dominions, to which
the said Act extends:

And whereas it is desirable to provide protection within the said Unpublished
dominions for the unpublished works of citizens of the United States * rtuen*^*
of America:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy
Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by the
Copyright Act, 1911, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as
follows:

i. The Copyright Act, 1911, including the provisions as to existing British Copy-
works, shall, subject to the provisions of the said Act and of this Order, "*** Act> " 9 "
apply

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Literary, dra- (a) to literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the authors
and"artistic work's whereof were at the time of the making of the works Citizens of the
United States of America, in like manner as if the authors had been
British Subjects:

Residence (b) in respect of residence in the United States of America, in like

manner as if such residence had been residence in the parts of His
Majesty's dominions to which the said Act extends.

Provided that

Term of copy- (i) The term of copyright within the parts of His Majesty's domin-
ions to which this Order applies shall not exceed that conferred by
the law of the United States of America:

Conditions and (ii) the enjoyment of the rights conferred by this Order shall be
subject to the accomplishment of the conditions and formalities pre-
scribed by the law of the United States of America:

Existing works (iii) in the application to existing works of the provisions of Sec-
tion 24 of the Copyright Act, 1911, the commencement of this Order
shall be substituted for the 26th July, 1910, in subsection i (b).
Self- governincr 2. This Order shall apply to all His Majesty's Dominions, Colo-
cludedintlis Order nies an d Possessions, with the exception of those hereinafter named,
that is to say:

The Dominion of Canada.
The Commonwealth of Australia.
The Dominion of New Zealand.
The Union of South Africa.
Newfoundland.

Effective Jan. i, 3. This Order shall come into operation on the istdayof January,
1915, which day is in this Order referred to as the commencement of
this Order.

And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give
the necessary Orders accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY

Addendum III
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS

BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Whereas it is provided by the Act of Congress of March 4, 1909, United states
entitled " An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copy- copyright act of
right," that the provisions of said Act, "so far as they secure copy- Mar -4. 1909
right controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechan-
ically the musical work, shall include only compositions published and Sec t ^ Con
copyrighted after this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the trot of mechanical
works of a foreign author or composer unless the foreign state or nation musical reproduc-
of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either w
by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United
States similar rights ' ' :

And whereas it is further provided that the copyright secured by Sec 8 p^g^
the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a authors who may
citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain condi- secure protection
tions set forth in section 8 of said Act, to wit:

(a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the Alien author
United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or domiciled in

(b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or pro- *' e tates '

Countries grant-

pnetor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, ing reciprocal

agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copy- rights

right on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright

protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign

author under this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation

is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity international

in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the agreement

United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto:

And whereas it is also provided by said section that "The existence Proclamation by
of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the Presi- the President
dent of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time as
the purposes of this Act may require":

And whereas satisfactory official assurance has been given that, by British Order in
virtue of the authority conferred by the British Copyright Act, 1911, a. Council is sued
British Order in Council has been issued of even date with this Procla-
mation directing:

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British Copy- i. That "the Copyright Act, 1911, including the provisions as to
right Act, IQII existing works, shall, subject to the provisions of the said Act and of

this Order, apply

Subject matter ( a ) to literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the authors
of copyright whereof were at the time of the making of the works citizens of the
United States of America, in like manner as if the authors had been
British subjects:

Residence O 3 ) ^ n respect of residence in the United States of America, in like

manner as if such residence had been residence in the parts of His
Majesty's dominions to which the said Act extends.

Provided that

Term of copy- (i) the term of copyright within the parts of His Majesty's dominions
right to which this Order applies shall not exceed that conferred by the law

of the United States of America:

Formalities (ii) the enjoyment of the rights conferred by this Order shall be sub-

ject to the accomplishment of the conditions and formalities prescribed
by the law of the United States of America:

Existing -works (iii) in the application to existing works of the provisions *of Section
24 of the Copyright Act, 1911, the commencement of this Order shall
be substituted for the 26th July, 1910, in subsection i (b)."

Self- governing 2. That "this Order shall apply to all His Majesty's dominions,
dominions not in- colonies and possessions with the exception of those hereinafter named,
eluded in ***that is to say: The Dominion of Canada, The Commonwealth of Aus-
tralia, The Dominion of New Zealand, The Union of South Africa,
Newfoundland. "

Date of effect of 3- That " this Order shall come into operation on the first day of Janu-
British Order in ary, 1915, which day is in this Order referred to as the commencement

Council Jan. i, of ^^ Order.

And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give
the necessary Orders accordingly."

Proclamation Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
of America, do declare and proclaim that one of the alternative con-
ditions specified in section 8 (b) of the Act of March 4, 1909, now exists
and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Great Britain and the British
dominions, colonies and possessions, with the exception of Canada,

Mechanical mu-

sical rights extend- Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Newfoundland, and that
ed to British an- such subjects shall be entitled to all the benefits of section i (e) of the

said Act, on and after January i, 1915.
Execution In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the

seal of the United States to be affixed.

Date of proda- Done at the City of Washington this first day of January, in the
motion Jan. i, year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and

[SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and thirty-ninth.

WOODROW WILSON
By the President:
W. J. BRYAN

Secretary of State

COP YRIGHT ITALY

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Whereas it is provided by the Act of Congress of March 4, 1909, Untie ^ States
entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copy- c ^ r ' a r
right," that the provisions of said act "so far as they secure copyright
controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically
the musical work, shall include only compositions published and copy-
righted after this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the works
of a foreign author or composer unless the foreign state or nation of which
such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty,
convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar
rights":

And whereas it is further provided that the copyright secured by the
Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen
or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain conditions set
forth in Section 8 of said Act, to wit:

(a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the Alten author
United States at the time of the first publication of his work ; or

r United stales

(b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or pro- Countries grant-
prietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agree- ing reciprocal
ment, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on Tt <> hts
substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright pro-
tection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign

author under' this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation
is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity
in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the
United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto:

And whereas it is also provided by said section that "The existence
of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the Presi-
dent of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time, as
the purposes of this Act may require":

And whereas satisfactory official assurance has been given that in
Italy the law permits to citizens of the United States similar rights to
those accorded in Section i (e) of the Act of March 4, 1909:

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of
America, do declare and proclaim that one of the alternative conditions
specified in Sections i (e) and 8 (b) of the Act of March 4, 1909, now
exists and is fulfilled and since May i, 1915, has been fulfilled in respect
to the subjects of Italy, and that the subjects of that country are entitled
to all the benefits of Section i (e) of said Act, including "copyright con- Mechanical mu-
trolling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the steal rights et-
musical work," in the case of all musical compositions by Italian com- lended to H^o. n
posers which have been published since May i, 1915, and have been authors
duly registered for copyright in the United States.

196 Report of the Librarian of Congress

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this first day of May, in the year of

our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen and of the

Date of proda- [ SEAL ] Independence of the United States of America the one

ma/ion May I, t. j j j ii_'_i_ ii_

hundred and thirty -ninth.

WOODROW WILSON
By the President:

W. J. BRYAN
Secretary of State

Addendum IV

Signed at Buenos Aires, August n, 1910; ratification advised by the
Senate, February 75, ign; ratified by the President, March 12, igii; ratifi-
cation of the United States deposited with the Government of the Argentine
Republic, May I, 1911; proclaimed July 13, 1914

BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OK AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Whereas, a Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyright between international
the United States of America and the Argentine Republic, Brazil, American Copy-
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ri ht: Preamble
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,
Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, and Venezuela was concluded and signed
by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Buenos Aires on the eleventh
day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten, the original of
which Convention, being in the Spanish, English, Portuguese and
French languages, is word for word as follows:

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE
CONVENTION

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Contracting
the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, powers
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela;

Being desirous that their respective countries may be represented pienipotentia-
at the Fourth International American Conference, have sent there to ries
the following Delegates duly authorized to approve the recommenda-
tions, resolutions, conventions and treaties which they might deem
advantageous to the interests of America :

[Here follow the names of the respective delegates, omitted.]

Who, after having presented their credentials and the same having Literary and ar-
been found in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following tistic copyright
Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyright.

ARTICLE i. The signatory States acknowledge and protect the rights Recognition of
of Literary and Artistic Property in conformity with the stipulations of property rights
the present Convention.

197

198 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Subject matter ARTICLE 2. In the expression "Literary and Artistic works" are
of copyright included books, writings, pamphlets of all kinds, whatever may be the
subject of which they treat, and whatever the number of their pages;
dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic and musical com-
positions, with or without words; drawings, paintings, sculpture,
engravings; photographic works; astronomical or geographical globes;
plans, sketches or plastic works relating to geography, geology or topog-
raphy, architecture or any other science; and, finally, all productions
that can be published by any means of impression or reproduction.
Reciprocal rec- ARTICLE 3. The acknowledgment of a copyright obtained in one
ogmtion of rights state, in conformity with its laws, shall produce its effects of full right,
"* in all tne other States, without the necessity of complying with any
other formality, provided always there shall appear in the work a state-
ment that indicates the reservation of the property right.

Exclusive rights ARTICLE 4. The copyright of a literary or artistic work, includes for
of author fe author or assigns the exclusive power of disposing of the same, of

publishing, assigning, translating, or authorizing its translation and
reproducing it in any form whether wholly or in part.

Name of author ARTICLE 5. The author of a protected work, except in case of proof
to the contrary, shall be considered the person whose name or well
known nom de plume is indicated therein; consequently suit brought
by such author or his representative against counterfeiters or violators,
shall be admitted by the Courts of the Signatory States.

Term of copy- ARTICLE 6. The authors or their assigns, citizens or domiciled for-
riollt eigners, shall enjoy in the signatory countries the rights that the respec-

tive laws accord, without those rights being allowed to exceed the term
of protection granted in the country of origin.

Works issued in F r works comprising several volumes that are not published simul-

aolumes or parts taneously , as well as for bulletins, or parts, or periodical publications,

the term of the copyright will commence to run, with respect to each

volume, bulletin, part, or periodical publication, from the respective

date of its publication.

Country of ori- ARTICLE 7. The country of origin of a work will be deemed that of
oin its first publication in America, and if it shall have appeared simulta-

neously in several of the signatory countries, that which fixes the
shortest period of protection.

Subsequent edi- ARTICLE 8. A work which was not originally copyrighted shall not
tions of noncopy- be entitled to copyright in subsequent editions.
right works ARTICLE Q. Authorized translations shall be protected in the same

Translations

manner as original works.

Translators of works concerning which no right of guaranteed prop-
erty exists, of the guaranteed copyright of which may have been extin-
guished, may obtain for their translations the rights of property set
forth in Article 3rd but they shall not prevent the publication of other
translations of the same work.

Newspaper re- ARTICLE io. Addresses or discourses delivered or read before delib-
dresses etc Q/- erat ^ ve assemblies, Courts of Justice, or at public meeting, may be
lowed printed in the daily press without the necessity of any authorisation,

with due regard however, to the provisions of the domestic legislation
of each nation.

ARTICLE n. Literary, scientific or artistic writings, whatever may Periodical con-
be their subjects, published in newspapers or magazines, in any one tributions pro-
of the countries of the Union, shall not be reproduced in the other coun- e
tries without the consent of the authors. With the exception of the
works mentioned, any article in a newspaper may be reprinted by
others, if it has not been expressly prohibited, but in every case, the Notice
source from which it is taken must be cited.

News and miscellaneous items published merely for general informa- News items not
tion, do not enjoy protection under this convention.

ARTICLE 12. The reproduction of extracts from literary or artistic Extracts for in-
publications for the purpose of instruction or chrestomathy, does not structton - etc -> af -
confer any right of property, and may, therefore, be freely made in all
the signatory countries.

ARTICLE 13. The indirect appropriation of unauthorised parts of a Unauthorized
literary or artistic work, having no original character, shall be Seemed use f i?arts f

.... ., , ,,. , . ., ,. !_,.. work illegal

an illicit reproduction, in so far as enects civil liability.

The reproduction in any form of an entire work, or of the greater Reproduction of
part thereof, accompanied by notes or commentaries under the pretext enlire works W >M

e ... .^. ,-f. , ,, . . , notes illegal

of literary criticism or amplification, or supplement to the original
work, shall also be considered illicit.

ARTICLE 14. Every publication infringing a copyright may be con- Confiscation
fiscated in the signatory countries in which the original work had the
right to be legally protected, without prejudice to the indemnities or
penalties which the counterfeiters may have incurred according to the Other penalties
laws of the country in which the fraud may have been committed.

ARTICLE 15. Each of the Governments of the signatory countries, Right of govem-
shall retain the right to permit, inspect, or prohibit the circulation, mental supervi-
representation or exhibition of works or productions, concerning which stc
the proper authority may have to exercise that right.

ARTICLE 16. The present Convention shall become operative be- Date of effect of
tween the Signatory States which ratify it, three months after they Conventton
shall have communicated their ratification to the Argentine Govern-
ment, and it shall remain in force among them a year after the date
when it may be denounced. This denunciation shall be addressed to Denunciation of
the Argentine Government and shall be without force except with Convention
respect to the country making it.

In witness whereof, the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Signatures
treaty and affixed thereto the Seal of the Fourth International American
Conference.

Made and signed in the City of Buenos Aires on the eleventh day of August u, 1910
August in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, in Spanish,
English, Portuguese and French, and deposited in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in order that certified
copies be made for transmission to each one of the signatory nations
through the appropriate diplomatic channels.

[Here follow the signatures (omitted) of the delegates of the United
States of America and the other nineteen contracting states: Argentine

9434 15 14

2OO Report of the Librarian of Congress

Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Re-
public, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela.]

Ratifications de- And whereas, the said Convention has been ratified by the Govern-
posited ment of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the

Senate thereof, and by the Governments of the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Ecuador,* and the
ratifications of the said Governments were, by the provisions of Article
16 of the said Convention, deposited by their respective Plenipoten-
tiaries with the Government of the Argentine Republic;

Proclamation Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of
the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be
made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause
thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United
States and the citizens thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.

Julyi3,igi4 Done at the City of Washington this thirteenth day of July in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen,
[SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America
the one hundred and thirty-ninth.

WOODROW WILSON
By the President:
W. J. BRYAN
Secretary of State

* The Government of Bolivia has announced through diplomatic channels the ad-
hesion of that country to this copyright convention.

APPENDIX III

MANUSCRIPTS AND BROADSIDES
I. GIFTS, 1914-15

From Samuel Lee Adams, South Boston, Va. :

Letters of Richard Stanford to his wife and James Patterson, 1803-8,
and sketch of Stanford's life by Samuel Lee Adams. (Originals
and typewritten copies.)
From Allen & Son, Liverpool, England:

A collection of recruiting posters and broadsides issued by the

London Central Recruiting Department, 1914-15.
From the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.:

Rules and regulations of the Library of Congress [1808]. (Broad-
side.)
From Harry M. Aubrey, San Antonio, Tex.

John Forsyth's account book of expenses while United States
Minister to Spain 1819-23, and journal of his voyage home,
(i vol.)
From Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Washington, D. C.:

Inaugural Ball souvenir, 1889.
From F. H. Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.:

Miscellaneous papers of J. W. Kirk of the provost marshal's office
in Ohio, 1861-4 (9 pieces); miscellaneous papers of R. W. Lee,
1862-4 (9 pieces).
From W. K. Bixby, St. Louis, Mo.:

Letters from and to Jefferson and miscellaneous memoranda,

1802-7. (Originals, press and typewritten copies, 5 pieces.)
From Mrs. F. E. Bryant, Lawrence, Kans. :

English ballads, xvm and early xix centuries, (i vol.)
From Dr. Elizabeth Comstock, New York City and Mrs. Frederick J
Burlingame, Woonsocket, R. I.:
Additional Comstock papers general orders, Army of the Potomac ;

letters and orders to Comstock, 1862-91.
From Miss Kate Cruikshank, Washington, D. C.:

Lectures on electricity and magnetism by Charles Cruikshank.
From A. M. Cudner, New York City:

George Washington's tax certificate for Maryland land, 1787.
From Miss J. W. Davidson, Newville, Pa.:

Daily report of sick on the U. S. S. Congress and Constitution, by
Surgeon James Dodge, 1804-5. (* vol.)

2O2 Report of the Librarian of Congress

From Stuyvesant Fish, New York City:

Proclamation of Governor Fletcher of Pennsylvania, 1693 . ( Broad-
side.)
From George W. Fiss, Philadelphia:

Two drawings and one pen decoration by Benjamin Moran'.
From Dr. Samuel A. Green, Boston, Mass.:

Massachusetts proclamations, Lincoln Day, Flag Day, and Thanks-
giving Day, 1914. (3 pieces.)
From Allan McLane Hamilton, Great Barrington, Mass.:

Alexander Hamilton's outline draft of argument [in trespass,

Rutgers v. Waddington, 1783].
From Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Washington, D. C. :

Papers of Edward Lee Plumb, 1825-77.
From Mrs. Michael D. Harter, Mansfield, Ohio:

Letters of Silas Brown, jr., 1805-17 (16 pieces). (Deposit.)
From Col. H. O. S. Heistand, Washington, D. C. :

Proclamation (in Chinese) issued by the commanders of the allied
forces in Pekin during the Boxer rebellion.
From the Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans, La.:

Funeral elegy on George Washington, delivered in New Orleans,

1800, Feb. (Typewritten transcript.)
From Dr. Edgar Erskine Hume, Frankfort, Ky. :
Bank-notes of the Frankfort Bank [1810].
From Mrs. Ridgely Hunt, Washington, D. C.:

" Compendiaria doctrina de actibus humanis. " (r vol.)
From Miss Cordelia Jackson, Washington, D. C.:

Letter from Joseph Collamer to Charles .Lanman, 1864, Nov.; letter

from Columbus Delano to President Lincoln, 1864, Nov.
From Mrs. Julian James, Washington, D. C.:

Miscellaneous theatrical and amusement programs from various
cities in the "United States, Belgium, Canada, China, Japan,
England, France, Italy, etc.
From Dr. J. F. Jameson, Washington, D. C.:

Letters to and from John Adams, 1789, July. (Photostat prints

of copies.)
From Judge L. H. Jones, Louisville, Ky.:

Letters and invitations to L. H. Jones from Mary Baker Eddy and

E. A. Kimball, 1901-7. (3 pieces.)
From Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, D. C.:

Menu, printed on satin, of a dinner in honor of Ulysses S. Grant,

at Welcker's, Washington, D. C., 1877, Feb.
From George A. Lyon, Estherville, Iowa:

Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brainard, 1861, Aug.; letter
to Benson J. Lossing and memorandum of military affairs in
Missouri and Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, 1861, May, by F. A. Dick.
From Mrs. James Lyons, Richmond, Va. :

Miscellaneous papers of William Wirt relating to Patrick Henry,
1778-1881. (50 pieces.)

Manuscripts Gifts 203

From Hon. George B. McClellan, Princeton, N. J.:
Additions to the McClellan papers. (32 vols.)
From Mrs. Allan McLane, Washington, D. C.:

Miscellaneous letters, documents, etc., 1784-1887, from Thomas F.
Bayard, James Buchanan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas
Jefferson, etc. (About 30 pieces.)
From C. C. Magruder, jr., Washington, D. C.:

Virginia broadside, 1809.
From T. F. Mason, Point of Rocks, Md.:

Papers of George Mason and miscellaneous Mason family papers,

1740-88. (Deposit.)
From the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, England:

A collection of recruiting posters and leaflets, 1915.
From Andrew Johnson Patterson, Greenville, Tenn.:

Andrew Johnson's memorandum on the subject of death, 1873,

June. (Photograph of pencil autograph original.)
From Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:

Miscellaneous broadsides of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1790-

1872. (14 pieces.)
From P. Lee Phillips, Washington, D. C.:

Miscellaneous papers of Philip Phillips and William Hallett Phil-
lips, 1839-1885. (19 vols.)
From Mrs. Orlando M.- Poe, Cobourg, Ontario:

Letters to and from Gen. Orlando M. Poe, 1864-87. (10 pieces.)
From A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia:

Facsimile of verses printed at Samoa in 1889 by Robert Louis
Stevenson and presented to his fellow passengers on the schooner
Equator.
From William E. Safford, Washington, D. C.:

Transcripts of the official records of Guam, 1721-1858 and notes on

the Mariana Islands, 1521-1898. (5 vols.)
From Eugene Saunier, Cadiz, Spain:

Boite a ordures (4 vols.) Poems; Les aventures du Chev. Sauterelle

(2 vols.)
From George Dudley Seymour, New Haven, Conn.:

Commission as lieutenant in 9th Continental Infantry to Elisha
Bostwick with statement of Bostwick's services thereon and a
description of Nathan Hale. (Photostat copy.)

From Prof. M. Shirai, Imperial University, Agricultural Department,
Komaba, Tokyo Fu, Japan:
An autograph ms. work on oranges. (In Japanese characters, on

rice paper.)

From Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, Columbia University, New York
City:
Summons of the French court of appeals for the arrest of Louise

Michel and others, 1886, July.
From B. L. Slack, St. Louis, Mo.:

Letterpress copy book of C. Slack, 1846-8. (i vol.)

204 Report of the Librarian of Congress

From William A. Slade, Washington, D. C.:

Card of admission to the gallery of the House of Representatives,

1877, Mar.; complimentary ticket to Mardi Gras, 1867.
From James E. Smith, Washington, D. C.:

Spanish treatise on navigation and astronomy xvin century.

(i vol.)
From Mrs. John Boyd Thacher, Albany, N. Y. :

Collection of autographs of sovereigns, nobility, and celebrities

of Europe. (Deposit.)
From the Union Club, New York City:

Photograph of pen imitation of letter from George Washington to

George Clymer, 1777, Aug.
From Miss Alice Welles, New York City:

Diary of Gideon Welles and additional Welles papers. (Deposit.)
From Mrs. Frederick Wesson, Washington, D. C. :

Broadsides of Jackson 's Nullification proclamation and message to
Congress, 1832-6. (2 pieces.)

II. GENERAL LIST OF ACCESSIONS, 1914-15

UNITED STATES

Confederate States of America:

Miscellaneous Confederate currency.
Continental Congress:

Circular letter of the Board of Treasury, 1785, Dec. ; circular letter
to the governors of the states, 1786, Oct.; Continental currency.
Finance:

Fractional currency notes; certificate of payment of excise duty in

Pennsylvania, 179-.
Navy:

Vendue books of sales of prizes by Joseph Ingersoll & Co., 1776-81
and other prize sale miscellany; daily report of the sick on the
U. S. S. Congress and Constitution, 1804-5; papers of Commodore
David Conner, 1817-47.
Revolution :

Memorandum of supplies furnished Simon French, 1777, Aug.;
Elisha Bostwick's commission as lieutenant with statement of
his services written thereon containing a description of Nathan
Hale. (Photostat print.)
War of 1812:

Account of the capture of Little York, Canada, 1813, April, and
description of Fort Erie and account of the siege, 1814, July, by
Amasa Trowb ridge.

INDIVIDUAL STATES

District of Columbia:

Miscellaneous papers relating to Georgetown and the District and
the Holland loan to Alexandria in connection with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, 1828-30.

Manuscripts Accessions 205

Kentucky :

Commission to Priestly Gray as captain of militia, 1792, Aug. ; bank

notes of the Frankfort bank, 1810?
Louisiana:

David B. Morgan's field survey book of Louisiana.
Massachusetts:

Acknowledgments of receipt of excised articles and promise to pay

excise on same, 1785-6. (2 pieces.)
New Hampshire :

Affidavits of William Furnald, 1783, July; certificate to an excise
oath, 1784, Aug.; receipts to commissioner of loans for payment
to invalid pensioners, 1792-96.
New Jersey :

Excise tax blank, 18 ; by-laws governing Capt. Andariese's com-
pany of militia artillery, 18 .
New York:

General Assembly resolves, a state of the grievances in this colony.
1775, May; record book of legal forms in use in the colony during
the 1 8th century.
North Carolina:

Miscellaneous papers of Governor John Archdale, 1694-1706. (65

pieces in bound volume.)
Virginia:

William Hay's report in, case of John Robinson's administrators v.
William Byrd et al. to be filed in the case of Somerville's exec-
utors i>. Ross, 1812, Aug.; James Jarvis's reminiscences of Nor-
folk county during the Revolution and the War of 1812.
West Florida:

Official records legislative minutes, commissions, instructions,
etc., 1763-81. (7 vols.)

MISCELLANEOUS

Accounts and account books:

Barbour, A. M. Cash book of his quartermaster accounts in the

Confederate army, 1861-2.
Crenshaw & Co., of Petersburg, Va. Ledger of accounts, 1770,

Jan. -Aug.

Dutchess county, New York, merchant's cash book, 1822-5.
Forsyth, John. Account book of expenses while United States

minister to Spain, 1819-23.
Hackett, William, 1741-8.
Morrill, Elijah, 1760-84. (3 vols.)
Porter, George, 1784.
Randolph family accounts, 1760-1860.
Schuyler, Philip, memorandum book, 1783-7.
True, Jabez, 1717-45 and 1732-45. (2 vols.)
Trumbull, John, 1797-8.
Yeates, John. Account against James Hudson & Co., 1756, Mar.

206 Report of the Librarian of Congress

America, British:

Establishment and pay of forces of the British army at Annapolis

Royal and elsewhere, 1745, April.
Europe :

A collection of autographs, letters, and documents written and
-signed by sovereigns, nobility, and celebrities of Europe, (i ,365
pieces.)
France :

Summons of the court of appeals for the arrest of Louise Michel

and others, 1886, July.
Guam and the Mariana Islands:

Transcripts of the official records of Guam, 1721-1858, and notes

on the Mariana Islands, 1521-1898. (5 vols.)
Italy:

Historia della famiglia Zabarella, trascritt6, et copiate da diversi

autori, xvm century, (i vol.)
Japan :

Ms. work on oranges, in the Japanese character on rice paper, 1914.
Journals and Diaries:

Moran, Benjamin, 1851-75. (44 vols.)

Preston, John T. L. (At Crany Island) 1861, July-Sept.

Ruffin, Edmund, 1856-65. (25 vols.)

Trumbull, John (tour, Paris, Flanders, and Germany), 1786.

Of a tour from Poughkeepsie to Sacondago River, 1803, Oct.
Letter Books:

C. Slack's letter-press copy book, 1846-8.
Literature :

Saunier, Eugene. Les Aventures merveilleuses du chev. Saute-

relle. (2 vols.)
Marine miscellany:

British seaman's protection paper, 1762, June.
Mexico :

Blank commissions signed by Santa Anna, 1876. (5 pieces.)
Orderly books:

Orders issued at Charleston, S. C., 1776, June-Aug.
Poetry:

Saunier, Eugene. Boite a ordures. (4 vols.)
Religion:

" Compendiaria doctrina de actibus humanis, " etc. (i vol.)

Notes for "The Christian Pioneer" of a life of St. Peter.
Science :

Cruikshank, Charles. Lectures on electricity and magnetism.

Spanish treatise on navigation and astronomy, xvm century, (i

vol.)
Spanish America:

Additions to the Schuller collection of material for the study of
Central and South American native languages.

Manuscripts Accessions 207

West Indies:

Book of official forms, administrative instruments, legal papers,
etc., in use in the British West Indies, 1653-1772. (i vol.)

PERSONAL

Bayard, Thomas F. Letter to Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 1887, Oct.

Bigelow, John. Miscellaneous papers, 1763-79. (5 pieces.)

Braxton, Carter. Letter to H. Patton, 1789, Jan.

Brown, Silas, jr. Letters, 1805-17. (16 pieces.)

Buchanan, James. Letter to James S. Green, 1849, Jan.

Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton. Letter to William Patterson, jr., 1808,

June.
Cernuschi, Henry. Biography. (Typewritten translation from the

French.)
Clay, Henry. Letter to Thomas Bodley, 1817, Jan.; letters to N.

Bouligny, 1839, Nov.; 1840, Jan. (2 pieces.)
Comstock, Cyrus Ballou. Additional papers, 1862-91.
Collamer, Jacob. Letter to Charles Lanman, 1864, Nov.
Crawford, Samuel W. Papers diary kept at Ft. Sumter, 1860-1, and

miscellaneous letters from Pickens, Beauregard, Trescot, and others.

(About 40 pieces.)

Dallas, George M. Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 1833, Feb.
Delano, Columbus. Letter to President Lincoln, 1864, Nov.
Dick, F. A. Letter to Benson J. Lossing and memorandum of military

affairs in Missouri and Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, 1861, May.
Eddy, Mary Baker. Letter and invitation to L. H. Jones, 1901-4.

(2 pieces.)

Fairchild, Charles S. Letter to Allen McLane, 1887, Apr.
Fish, Hamilton. Letter to S. A. Brown, 1877, Aug.
Fontanes, Louis. Funeral elegy on George Washington, 1800, Feb.
Force, Peter. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1818-1865. (About 300

pieces.)

Hamilton, Alexander. Outline draft of a legal argument [1783].
Hampton, Wade. Letter to John Nicholson, 1796, June.
Harper, Robert Goodloe. Letter to Clement Dorsey, 1812, Sept.
Henry, Patrick. Miscellaneous papers of William Wirt relating to

Henry, 1778-81. (50 pieces.)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Letter to Dr. Chad wick, 1882, Sept.
Hooker, Joseph. Letter to Brainard, 1861, Aug.
Hoym, Charles Henry, Comte de. Letters to Mons. Milsonneau, 1729,

Sept. and undated. (3 pieces.)

Jay, John. Letter to Sevellon A. Brown, 1878, June.
Jefferson, Thomas. Letters to James Brown, John Beckley and Van

Zandt, a list of books and memorandum, 1792-1807. (5 pieces.)
Johnson, Andrew. Memorandum on the subject of death, 1873, June.

(Photograph of autograph original in pencil.)
Kimball, E. A. Letter to L. H. Jones, 1907, Jan.

208 Report of the Librarian of Congress

Kirk, J. W. Miscellaneous papers of the provost marshal's office in
Ohio, 1861-4. (9 pieces.)

Lafayette, Marquis de. Letter to Mrs. (?), 1824, Sept.

Lamont, Daniel S. Letter to Allen McLane, 1887, Apr.

Lanman, Charles. Papers, 1820-80. (2 vols.)

Lee, R. W. Miscellaneous papers, 1862-4. (9 pieces.)

Livingston & Kent. Register of law suits brought by, 1791-1801. (i

vol.)
Lossing, Benson J. Letter to Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 1865, Nov.

McClellan, George B. Additions to the McClellan papers. (32 vols.)

McLane, Allan. Letter to Gary & Hart, 1834, June.

Mason, George, and the Mason family. Miscellaneous papers of George
Mason, 1779-88, and miscellaneous papers of the Mason family.

May, H. Letter to Kelly, 1847, Dec.

Moran, Benjamin. Sketches.

Phelps, E. I. Letter to (?), 1886, Feb.

Phillips papers. Miscellaneous account books, fee books, etc., of
Philip Phillips and William Hallett Phillips, 1839-1885.

Plumb, Edward Lee. Papers, 1825-77.

Plumer, William. Volume I of Plumer's Register, 1805-7.

Poe, Orlando M. Letters, 1864-87. (10 pieces.)

Roman, Alfred. Papers, 1861-90.

Schuyler, Philip. Letters to Stephen Van Rensselaer and others, 1787-
1804 (n pieces); letter to Guillam Verplanck, 1797, Jan.

Sherman, Roger. Letters to and from John Adams, 1789, July. (Pho-
tostat prints of copies. )

Simms, William Gilmore. Letter to Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 1866,
Oct.

Sparks, Jared. Letter to E. Magrath, 1828, May.

Stanford, Richard. Letters to his wife and to James Patterson, 1803-44;
also typewritten sketch of Stanford's life by Samuel L. Adams.

Stoddert, Benjamin. Letter to Henry Glen, 1800, Feb.

Stone papers. Miscellaneous papers of Walter Stone and other mem-
bers of the family, 1730-1863. (108 pieces.)

Trowbridge, Amasa. Letters to Benson J. Lossing, 1855-56; auto-
biography of Trowbridge.

Trumbull, John. Miscellaneous papers and letters, 1786-1835.

Washington, Bushrod. Letter to George Lewis, 1808, Dec.; letter to
William Sewall, 1823, May.

Washington, George. Letter to Adam Stephen, 1777, May; certificate
respecting taxes for Charles county lands, 1787, Mar.; photograph of
pen imitation of letter to George Clymer, 1777, Aug.

Welles, Gideon. Diary, 1861-9 and additions to the Welles papers.

Wharton, Francis. Letters to Allan McLane, 1886, Oct.; 1887, Apr.

Willis, Edward. Papers, 1861-5. (20 vols. and loose papers.)

Wirt, William. Letters to James Wallace, 1825-6. (6 pieces.)

Manuscripts Accessions 209

BROADSIDES

China:

Proclamation issued by the commanders of the allied forces in
Pekin during the Boxer rebellion [1900]. (In Chinese char-
acters on rice paper.)
.Connecticut:

Proclamations, 1828-1912. (37 pieces.)
Georgia:

"Down with the Abolition press!" 1860, Dec.
Ordinance of Secession, 1861, Jan.
Grant, Ulysses S.:

Menu of dinner at Welcker's [Washington, D. C.], 1877, Feb.
Great Britain:

"Society for Constitutional Information," 1792, May.
"To Mr. Secretary Dundas," 1791, June.

Miscellaneous collection of ballads of the i8th and early i9th
centuries and sundry chap-book ballads by Ralph Hodgson,
Walter de la Mare, and others.

"The People" (London Weekly), 1914. A collection of posters
calling for recruits, 1914-15, issued by the London Central Re-
cruiting Department.
Jackson, Andrew:

Nullification proclamation, 1832 (on satin); Message to Congress,

1836.
Kentucky :

Political broadsides, 1816-22. (5 pieces.)
Louisiana:

Complimentary ticket of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, Mardi Gras,

1867.
Massachusetts:

Proclamations, 1914. (3 pieces.)
New York:

" Preliminaries of Peace," 1801, Nov.
Pennsylvania:

Proclamation of Governor Fletcher, 1693, Apr.; miscellaneous
political -broadsides' and carrier's addresses, 1790-1872. (14
pieces.)
South Carolina:

Charleston ordinance, 1826, Oct. ; Anderson town ordinances, 1860,
July and Dec.; Charleston Mercury Extra, 1860, Dec. (facsimile);
"To the People of the United States," 1876, Oct.; Charleston
News and Courier Extra, 1876, Dec.
Stevenson, Robert Louis:

Facsimile of verses printed at Samoa in 1889 and presented to his

fellow passengers on the schooner Equator.
Theatrical programs:

Miscellaneous theatrical and amusement programs, 1878-19 , for
performances in various cities of the United States and in Bel-
gium, Canada, China, Japan, England, France, Italy, Switzer-
land, and Germany.

210 Report of the Librarian of Congress

United States:

Continental Congress: Resolve, 1785, Aug.; A state of the repre-
sentation in Congress, 1788, May.

Legislative: Acts to establish salaries of executive officers, 1789,
Sept., and to suspend the act regulating collection of duties,
1 789, Sept.

Revolutionary War: Subscription paper for erecting a monument,
1795, Feb -

Proclamation, 1807, July.

Library of Congress rules and regulations, [1808].

Card of admission to the gallery of the House of Representatives,
1877, Mar., and inaugural ball souvenir, 1889, Mar.

Civil war broadsides and miscellaneous political broadsides of the

i8th and igth centuries. (106 pieces.)
Virginia:

House of Delegates resolves, 1793, Nov.; quarantine proclamation,
1803, Aug.; Ledger Office, 1807, June. The affair between the
Chesapeake and the Leopard. "To the enemies of Jefferson and
Madison," Norfolk, 1809, Apr.

III. LIST OF TRANSCRIPTS FROM MANUSCRIPTS
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND PUBLIC RECORD
OFFICE; AND FROM THE FULHAM AND LAM-
BETH PALACE LIBRARIES

BRITISH MUSEUM:

Selections from the following volumes
Additional Manuscripts

Newcastle Papers: Official correspondence of Thomas Pelham
Holies, Duke of Newcastle. (General correspondence.)

32889 Vol. CCIV uMar.-ioApr., 1759.

32890 Vol. CCV ii Apr.~5 May, 1759.

32891 Vol. CCVI 6 May-io June, 1759.

32892 Vol. CCVII ii June-io July, 1759.

32893 Vol. CCVIII ii July~5 Aug., 1759.

32894 Vol. CCIX 6-28 Aug., 1759.

32895 Vol. CCX 29 Aug.-ig Sept., 1759.

32896 Vol. CCXI 2oSept.-ioOct., 1759.

32897 Vol. CCXII 11-31 Oct., 1759.

32898 Vol. CCXIII 1-20 Nov., 1759.

32899 Vol. CCXIV 21 Nov.-io Dec., 1759.

32900 Vol. CCXV 11-31, Dec., 1759.

32901 Vol. CCXVI Jan., 1760.

32902 Vol. CCXVII Feb., 1760.

32903 Vol. CCXVI 1 1 1-24 Mar., 1760.

32904 Vol. CCXIX 25 Mar.-2o Apr., 1760.

32905 Vol. CCXX 21 Apr. -10 May, 1760.

Manuscripts List of -Transcripts

211

BRITISH MUSEUM Continued.

Additional Manuscripts Continued.

32906 Vol.CCXXI 11-31 May, 1760.

Vol. CCXXII June, 1760.

Vol. CCXXIII 1-22 July, 1760.

Vol. CCXXIV 23 July-i2 Aug., 1760.

Vol. CCXXV 13-31 Aug., 1760.

Vol. CCXXVI 1-20 Sept., 1760.

Vol. CCXXVII 21 Sept.-9 Oct., 1760.

Vol. CCXXVIII 10-31 Oct., 1760.

Vol. CCXXIX 1-20 Nov., 1760.

Vol. CCXXX 21 Nov-n Dec., 1760.

Vol. CCXXXI 12-31 Dec., 1760.

Vol. CCXXXII i-2i Jan., 1761.

Vol. CCXXXIII 22 Jan.-i 4 Feb., 1761.

Vol. CCXXXIV 15 Feb.-8 Mar., 1761.

Vol. CCXXXV 9-22 Mar., 1761.

Vol. CCXXXVI 23 Mar.-is Apr., 1761.

Vol. CCXXXVII 16 Apr.-9 May, 1761.

Vol. CCXXXVIII 10 May-9 June, 1761.

Vol. CCXXXIX 10 June-g July, 1761.

Vol. CCXL 10-26 July, 1761.

Vol. CCXLI 27 July-i2 Aug., 1761.

Vol. CCXLII 13 Aug.-5 Sept., 1761.

Vol. CCXLI 1 1 6-30 Sept., 1761.

Vol. CCXLIV 1-23 Oct., 1761.

Vol. CCXLV 24 Oct.-u Nov., 1761.

Vol. CCXLVI 12 Nov.-s Dec., 1761.

Vol. CCXLVII 6-31 Dec., 1761.

Vol. CCXLVIII 1-25 Jan., 1762.

Vol. CCXLIX 26 Jan.-2o Feb., 1762.

Vol. CCL 21 Feb.-2oMar., 1762.

Vol. CCLI 21 Mar.-g Apr., 1762.

Vol. CCLII 10-30 Apr., 1762.

Vol. CCLIII 1-25 May, 1762.

Vol. CCLIV 26 May-2o June, 1762.

Vol. CCLV 21 June-2o July, 1762.

Vol. CCLVI 21 July-25 Aug., 1762.

Vol. CCLVII 25 Aug.-Sept., 1762.
Additional Manuscripts; Hardwicke Papers.
35421 Vol. LXXIII

Political Correspondence of the ist Lord Hardwicke and the
Duke of Newcastle, June, i76i-July, 1762.

[Selected folios transcribed, and a list made of other items
in the volume which duplicate with the Newcastle Papers,
and have either been already copied there or noted in the
Newcastle Calendar.]

32907
32908
32909
32910
32911
32912

3 2 9 J 3

32914

329*5
32916
32917
32918
32919
32920
32921
32922
32923
32924

3 2 9 2 S
32926

32927
32928
32929
32930

3293 1
32932

3 2 933
3 2 934

3 2 935
32936

32937

32939
32940

32941
32942

212 Report of the Librarian of Congress

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE:
Colonial Office, Class 5

Vol. 176 [old A. W. I. 298]

Volume lettered: Correspondence with the civil
Officers of Provinces now the United States during
the Rebellion. [1778-1783]' [Correspondence
with North Carolina and South Carolina copied.
Georgia correspondence not copied, having been
transcribed for the State of Georgia.]
Vol. 231 [old A. W. I. 400]

Volume lettered: Plantations General, 22 April,
1781, to ii Oct., 1781. [In-Letters to Secretary of
State, Vol. 6]. Selections are two letters from
Capt. Edward Thompson, on board the Hyena,
Barbadoes and Demarara.
Vol. 264 [old A. W. I. 399]

Volume with this on the side: Minutes of the Coun-
cil to His Majesty's Commissioners. Entries, &c.
&c. [Minute book of the first Peace Commission,
1779-1783.]
Colonial Office, Class 323

Vol. 30 [old Board of Trade Journal 131]

Volume lettered: Communicated from Secretaries of
State, 1765. [Selections chiefly relate to trade with
Naples and Sardinia.]
Colonial Office, Class 324

Vol. 3 [old Colonial Entry Book 98]

[Not transcribed, as it is printed almost in full in
the Calendar of the State Papers, 1574-1674, Ad-
denda, pp. 154-163, item 405; but some omissions
in the print are noted.]
Vol. 12 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 40]

Volume lettered: Plantations General, from 3 July,

1733, to 20 December, 1749. G.
Vol. 14 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 42]

Volume lettered: Plantations General. I. Memo-
rials. Oct. 6, 1752. [The volume contains a
"Draught of a Memorial to be presented by his
Majesties' Commissaries to the Commissaries of His
Most Christian Majesty, in answer to their Memo-
rial of the 4th October, 1751, concerning Nova
Scotia or Acadie,"]
Vol. 15 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 43]

Volume lettered: Plantations General, July, 1750,
to February, 1756. K. [The volume contains
general correspondence, with the Secretaries of
State and the Board of Trade, and also draughts of
Memorials in reference to Nova Scotia and to St.
Lucia.]

Manuscripts List of Transcripts 213

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Continued.

Colonial Office, Class 324 Continued.

Vol. 17 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 45]

Volume lettered: Plantations General, 1760 to 1766.

M. [Index at end of volume.]
Vol. 18 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 46]

Volume lettered: Plantations General, 1766 to 1780.

N. [Index at end of volume.]
Vol. 19 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 47]

Volume lettered: Plantations General. O. [1780-

1782] [13 pages only.]
Vol. 21 [old Board of Trade, Commercial, II, 459]

Volume lettered: Plantations General. [1743-1782]
[Contains memorials, English and French, on
rights to St. Lucia.]
Vol. 48 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 58]

(A bundle consisting of four manuscript books of
different sizes.) [1706-1763] Lists of Councillors
and persons recommended to supply vacancies in
the respective Councils in America.
Vol. 49 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 55]

Volume lettered: Patents. [1714 to 1781] [Incom-
plete index at end of volume, to January, 1741]
Vol. 50 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 56]

Volume lettered: Patents. [1728-1751] [Index in

front of volume.]
Vol. 51 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 52]

Volume lettered: Warrants. [1752-1773] [Index at

end of volume, to 1760 only.]
Vol. 52 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 53]

Volume lettered: Warrants. 1754 to 1779.
Vol. 53 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 54]

Volume lettered: Warrants. Index in front of

volume. [1768-1782]
Vol. 54 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 57]

Volume lettered: Grants of Lands. Carolinas, Flor-
ida, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Virginia.
[1750-1771]
Vol. 55 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 59]

Volume lettered: Names of Persons Naturalized.
Vol. I. [1740-1761]
Vol. 56 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 60]

Volume lettered: Persons Naturalized in America.

Vol. II. [1761]
Vol. 57 [no old number]

Volume lettered: Military Precedents. [A few items
selected, relating to America.]

'2 1 4 Report of the Librarian of Congress

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Continued.

Colonial Office, Class 324 Continued.
Vol. 58 [nojald number]

Volume lettered : Military Precedents. 1741101761.

[A few items selected.]

[Vol. 59 belongs to the period 1791-1801, and was not copied.]
Vol. 60 [old Board of Trade, Plantations General, 51]

Volume lettered: Agents 1750 to 1770. [Index of

colonies in front of volume.]
Audit Office. Declared Accounts

Customs (Receivers General and Cashiers, Various). Bundle
814, Roll 1056, to Bundle 821, Roll 1070. 3rd installment,
December, 1750, to 5 January, 1766. (1672 to 1783 in
progress). Selected items relating to the Plantations.
War Office, Class I

Vol.6 [old Volume 16]

Volume lettered: M. G. Gage, 1764, 1765. [Military
correspondence, being chiefly letters from General
Gage to the Secretary of War.]
FULHAM PALACE MANUSCRIPTS:

Archives of the Bishop of London
Massachusetts One box.
Pennsylvania One box.
Virginia Two boxes.
New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and New Jersey

One box.
LAMBETH PALACE MANUSCRIPTS:

The Library of the London residence of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury

1123, I. The correspondence in this volume is from 1725 to
1754, during the primacies of Archbishops Teni-
son, Wake, Potter and Herring.

1123, II. The correspondence in this volume ranges from
1755 to 1760. The Archbishops were Drs.
Herring, Hutton and Seeker.

1123, III. The correspondence in this volume ranges from
the year 1760 to 1763. Archbishop Seeker.

INDEX

Page

Accessions, 1914-15 28-30

Documents, statistics 74

Law library, statistics 80

Manuscripts, list of 204-2 10

Maps and charts, statistics. . . . ; 83-84

Music , statistics 91

Noteworthy . m 38-58

Periodicals, statistics 94-96

Printed books and pamphlets, statistics 28-30

Prints, statistics 100

Adams, Samuel Lee, gift . 201

A. L. A. subject card catalogue 121-122

Allen & son, Liverpool, gift .' . . . 201

American antiquarian society, gift 201

American newspapers, Noteworthy accessions 96-9?

Anthony, Miss Susan B 36

Appropriation acts, 1915-16 151-155

Appropriations, 1914-1916 20

Appropriations and expenditures, 1914-15 (tables) 147-149

Appropriations and expenditures, 1914-1916 (tables) 139-140

Archdale, John, papers 7 2 ~73

Archives depository 63

Art and architecture, Noteworthy accessions 43~5 2

Asakawa, Dr. Kan Ichi . . .' 42

Ashley, Frederick W 19

Aubrey, Harry M., gift 201

Averill, Frank Lloyd 7

Badger, Richard G., gift 37

Bequests to the Library of Congress, form 4

Benjamin, Dr. Marcus, gift 201

Bibliography, Division of, report of 120-123

Cooperative undertakings 123

Publications 117-118

Bigelow, F. H., gift 201

Binding 95, 104-106

Bishop, Wm. W 18-19

Bixby, W. K., gift 201

Blind, Reading room for the 128-129

Bloch publishing company, gift 37

Books, purchases 38-58

Botanic Garden, appropriations and expenditures 139

9434 15 15

215

2 1 6 Index

Page

Broadsides, accessions 209-210

Brown, Silas, jr., papers 69, 202

Bruncken, Ernest 18

Bryant, Mrs. F. E., gift 201

Building and grounds, report of the Superintendent 133-144

Burlingame, Mrs. Frederick J., gift 64, 65, 201

Card Division, report of 112-115

Cards, sale of 112

Depositories 113-114

Subscribers 112

Catalogue Division, report of 106-108

Publications 118

Cataloguing, statistics 106

Charles-Roux, 5ules, gift 36

Chen Kuo-fan, diary 37

Chinese literature, purchases 38-42

Classification 108-112

Printed schedules . 1 10, 118

Colonial papers 7 2 ~73

Commendations of publications 119-120

Comstock, Maj. Gen. Cyrus Ballou, papers 65, 201

Comstock, Dr. Elizabeth, gift 64, 65, 201

Contents of the library, statistics 28-30

Contingent expenses (table) 149

Articles deposited, 1914-15 25, 159

Articles deposited, 1897-1915 (tables) 183-186

Bill, Jan. 8, 1915 (H. R.) 189-190

Branch office, Panama- Pacific exposition 28, 165

British Order in Council 191-192

Bulletins and circulars 161-162

Business (monthly comparison), 1914-1915 (tables) 174-175

Business prior to July i, 1897 27, 164-165

Catalogue of copyright dramas, 1870-1914 162

Catalogue of copyright entries 27, 16

Circulars 162

Convention on literary and artistic copyright, Buenos

Aires 197-200

Correspondence, statistics 25, 164

Current business 26-27

Current work 164

Deposits, return of 160

Value of 158

Elimination of copyright deposits 27-28, 159-160

Entries 163

Expenditures 26, 158

Index 2l 7

Fees, etc 25, 157, 158, 163

Fees, 1914-15 (tables) 172-173

Index cards 160-161

Presidential copyright proclamations

Great Britain 193-194

Italy 195-196

Publications 161-162

Receipts 26, 157, 158

Receipts 1914-15 (tables) 171, 174-175

Registrations 158, 175

Registrations, 1897-1915 (tables) 178, 180-181

Salaries 26, 158

Statistics, 1914-15 25-27, 171-175

Statistics, 1897-1915 (tables) 171-186

Summary of business 163

Transfer of copyright deposits 27, 60, 159-160

Cruikshank, Miss Kate, gift 201

Cudner, A. M., gift 201

Gushing, Hon. Caleb 41

Davidson, Miss J. W., gift 201

Deinard collection 102-103

Dillon, John F., bequest 38

Dobell collection 58

Documents, Division of, report of 74-80

Accessions, statistics 74

Documents, foreign 75~?6

International organizations 79-80

Official gazettes 7^-79

Want lists 75

International exchange 75~?6

Publications 118

State documents, monthly list 79

Statistics 79

East Asiatic collection 41-42

Economic history, Noteworthy accessions 70-71

English drama, Noteworthy accessions 57

Exchanges ; 60

Exhibits:

Music 94

Prints 101-102

Expenditures, appropriations and, 1914-15 (tables) 147-148

Expenditures, appropriations and, 1914-1916 (tables) 20, 139-140

Expenditures, fuel, lights, etc 136-137

Federal Statutes, index 15

Finance 19-24

Fine arts, Noteworthy accessions 43-52

Fischer, Wm. Arms, gift 93

Fish, Stuyvesant, gift 202

2 1 8 Index

Page

Fiss, George W., gift 202

Fitzpatrick, J. C 63-64

Form of gift or bequest to the Library of Congress 4

Force, Peter, papers 61, 73-74

Foster catalogue of first editions 93-94, 119

Fuel, lights, etc., expenditures 136-137

Fung, Dr. King Kwai 38, 42

Funk and Wagnalls company, gift 37

Furniture, screens, etc 137

Geographical atlases, list of 88-89

Gift or bequest to the Library of Congress, form '. 4

G ift s 31-38

Manuscripts 64-68

Manuscripts, 1914-15, list of 201-204

Music 93

Prints 100

Gilbert, Henry F., gift ; 93

Green, Bernard R 7> 93

Green, Dr. Samuel A., gift 202

Guide to the law of Spain 82, 1 18

Hamilton, Alexander, papers 68, 202

Hamilton, Dr. Allan McLane, gift 68, 202

Harper, Mrs. Ida Husted, gift 35-36, 68, 202

Harrisse, Henry, bequest 3 J -3S

Harter, Mrs. Michael D. , deposit 69, 202

Hazlitt collection 58

Hebraica collection 103

Heistand, Col. H. O. S., gift 202

Henry, Patrick, and Wm. Wirt, papers 65, 202

Historical works, Noteworthy accessions 56-57

Holt, Henry, company, gift 37

Howard Memorial library, gift .' . 202

Huebsch, B. W., gift 37

Hume, Dr. Edgar Erskine, gift 202

Hunt, Mrs. Ridgely 35, 202

lies, George, gift 36

Increase of the Library 28-60

Increase of salaries 19, 2 1-24

Indexes, digests, and compilations of law 15-16

International copyright relations 168-170

Jackson, Miss Cordelia, gift 202

James, Mrs. Julian, gift . 202

Jameson, Dr. J. Franklin, gift 202

Johnson, Andrew, papers 203

Jones, Judge L. H., gift : 7~7 I > 202

Jones papers 7Q-7 1 ) 2 2

Journals of the Continental Congress. 119

Kletsch , Ernst, gift 93

Index 219

Page

Lane, John, company , New York, gift 37

Law library, report of 80-83

Accessions, statistics 80

Colonial laws catalogue 81

Foreign law 82

Guide to Spanish law '. 82

Latin-American laws 82

Noteworthy accessions, list of 80-81

Rearrangement of collections 81

Recataloguing of collections 81

Session laws and State reports 81

Supreme Court records and briefs 82

Legislative reference 8-17

Librarians, 1802-1915 5

Library staff, list 5-6

Lighting system, improvement in 142-143

Lowdermilk & company, gift 202

Lum, Mrs. Bertha, gift 100

Lyon, George A., gift 202

Lyons, Mrs. James H. , gift 64, 65, 202

McClellan, Hon. George B., gift 64, 65, 203

McClellan papers 65, 203

McLane, Mrs. Allan, gift 203

Magruder, C. C., jr., gift 203

Manuscripts, Division of, report of 61-74

Accessions, general list of, 1913-15 204-210

Gifts and deposits 64-70

Gifts, 1914-15, list of 201-204

Publications 63-64, 119

Transcripts, list of 210-214

Maps and Charts, Division of, report of 83-91

Accessions, statistics 83-84

Atlases 88-90

Bibliography of cartography 90

Binding 84

California maps 90

County maps 84

Harrisse bequest 88

Manuscript maps 88

Noteworthy accessions 85-88

Portolans or compass charts 85-86

Publications 88-90

Purchases 85-88

Reproduction of material 84

Sanborn insurance maps 84

Washington maps 90

Mason, T. F., deposit 68-69, 20 3

Mason, George, papers 68-69, 2O 3

220 Index

Page

Miscellaneous receipts 141

Moran, Benjamin, diary 71-72

Morgan, J. Pierpont, gift 37

Music, Division of, report of 91-94

Accessions, statistics 91

Contents, statistics 91

Exhibits , . 94

Gifts.

: 93

Noteworthy accessions 92-93

Opera scores 93

Publications 93-94. 119

Purchases 92-93

Transcripts 92

Newspapers, American, noteworthy accessions 96-98

Nieh Chi-Cheh, gift

Noteworthy accessions 38-58, 96-98

Officers, list of 5-6

Official gazettes 76-79

Palmer, Thomas W., jr 82, 118

Panama- Pacific International exposition 115, 130-131

Branch Copyright office 28, 165

Awards 131

Parliamentary recruiting committee, London, gift 203

Parsons, Arthur Jeffrey facing p. 6

Patterson, Andrew Johnson, gift 203

Pell, Wm. Cruger, library 35

Pennsylvania historical society, gift 203

Periodicals, Division of, report of 94-100

Accessions, statistics 94~95

Binding of newspapers 95

List of serials 98

Newspaper statistics 95~9^

Noteworthy accessions 96-98

Transfers 96

Phillips, P Lee, gift 65, 203

Phillips papers 65, 203

Plumb, Edward Lee, papers 68, 202

Poe, Mrs. O. M., gift 65, 66-67, 2O 3

Poe, Orlando Metcalf , papers 66-67, 203

Prints, Division of, report of 100-102

Accessions, statistics 100

Exhibits 101-102

Gifts 100

Purchases 100

Transfers 100

Publications Section, report of 116-120

Publications, commendations 88-89, 110-120

Publications, list of 117-1 19

Publications, statistics 116

Publisher's Weekly 37

Index 221

Page

Purchases, Noteworthy accessions 38-58

Reading room for the blind 128-129

Reference bureau, legislative 8-17

Repairs to buildings 142-144

Rockhill, Wm. Woodville 41-42

Rosenbach, A. S. W., gift 203

Ruffin, Edmund, diary 71

Safford, Wm. E., gift 203

Salaries, Increases of 19, 21-24

Saunier, Eugene, gift 203

Scribner's, Charles, sons, gift 37

Schuller collection 53

Semitica, Division of, report of 102-104

Seymour, George Dudley, gift . . 203

Serials, List of 98

Service I 7~ I 9

Shirai, Prof. M. , gift 203

Simkhovitch, Dr. Vladimir G., gift 203

Simkhovitch collection 5 2 ~53

Slack, B. L., gift 203

Slade, Wm. A., gift 204

Smith, James E., gift 204

Smithsonian Deposit 123-128

Stevens, B . F. , Index 61

Stokes, Frederick A., company, gift 38

Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds, Report. 133-144

Swingle, Dr. Walter T 40, 42

Thacher, J. B., autograph collection 69, 204

Thacher, Mrs. John Boyd, deposit 69, 204

Thompson, James David 17-18

Tiffany, Louis C., gift 36

Transcripts from foreign sources . 61-63

Transcripts of English records, list of 210-214

Transfers and exchanges 58-60

Tu vShu Tsi Cheng, Chinese encyclopaedia 42

Unexpended balances 140

Union club, New York City, gift 204

Visitors to the Library, statistics 141

Washington correspondence, Calendar of 63-64, 119

Welles, Miss Alice, deposit '. 65, 67, 204

Welles, Gideon, papers 67, 204

Wesson, Mrs. Frederick, gift 204

West Florida archives 70

Whitmer, T. Carl, gift : 93

Widener, Joseph E- , gift 36

Wilkinson, Paul, library 55

Woman suffrage, history of 35~36

Woodbury, John, gift 100

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